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Andrew F. Davis papers, January-October 1863
08_1863-01-18-Page 04
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and it being the 1st of the year as well as 1st of the month all the annual as well as monthly and quarterly reports had to be made and then on muster day we ware fighting all day so we did not get time to make muster rolls and I had that to do and what makes it harder on me it that evry man in the company who knew anything about the books & business of the company was either killed or wounded so I have to do it all myself but I have got it all up square now and got time to write this. Two citizens of Tippecanoe are now here One Mr Gyger of LaFayette whose father live near your father and a Mr Kirkpatrick from the Southern part of the county. I want to send you what is left of my sword by Gyger I understand that Capt McCutcheon has written a letter to the courier which I want you to get and cut out and send to me in a letter if you can. I wrote one which will fill 4 or 5 columns of the Herald and sent it last week I don't know whether he will publish it or not but think he will. If you have not done so already you must send the long one I wrote to you to mother or Nan for I have not had time to write to them and when I do will not go into details so much as I did in that one. I received a letter from Nan a few days since written Dec 24, in which he praises his boy a little Curses the war plentifully and gives old Abe and the party in power perfect fits for not haveing it stopped sooner. The most I am afraid of is that the incomeing Congress will in place of prosecuting the war with vigor will acknowledge the Southern Confederacy. The South is expecting it. You ask me if my paper is all gone. I answer no but it is in my big trunk and it is in Nashville so the paper does me no good now. Just before Christmas there was an effort made to get me ordered to Indiana on buisness of the war, and had not this battle been pending no doubt I should have been sent but now I am out for so many ware wounded who are unable for duty in the field will no doubt be ordered to do the buisness. Expecting to get to go I did not send my big trunk but expected to take it but now I will get it as soon as I can and just what things are worth sending and put them in a box and send them home and give or throw the trunk away for it is not worth what it would cost to send it. My apples will be mellow when I get them don't you think so, The Sheet is full and I quit Your loveing husband A.F. Davis
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and it being the 1st of the year as well as 1st of the month all the annual as well as monthly and quarterly reports had to be made and then on muster day we ware fighting all day so we did not get time to make muster rolls and I had that to do and what makes it harder on me it that evry man in the company who knew anything about the books & business of the company was either killed or wounded so I have to do it all myself but I have got it all up square now and got time to write this. Two citizens of Tippecanoe are now here One Mr Gyger of LaFayette whose father live near your father and a Mr Kirkpatrick from the Southern part of the county. I want to send you what is left of my sword by Gyger I understand that Capt McCutcheon has written a letter to the courier which I want you to get and cut out and send to me in a letter if you can. I wrote one which will fill 4 or 5 columns of the Herald and sent it last week I don't know whether he will publish it or not but think he will. If you have not done so already you must send the long one I wrote to you to mother or Nan for I have not had time to write to them and when I do will not go into details so much as I did in that one. I received a letter from Nan a few days since written Dec 24, in which he praises his boy a little Curses the war plentifully and gives old Abe and the party in power perfect fits for not haveing it stopped sooner. The most I am afraid of is that the incomeing Congress will in place of prosecuting the war with vigor will acknowledge the Southern Confederacy. The South is expecting it. You ask me if my paper is all gone. I answer no but it is in my big trunk and it is in Nashville so the paper does me no good now. Just before Christmas there was an effort made to get me ordered to Indiana on buisness of the war, and had not this battle been pending no doubt I should have been sent but now I am out for so many ware wounded who are unable for duty in the field will no doubt be ordered to do the buisness. Expecting to get to go I did not send my big trunk but expected to take it but now I will get it as soon as I can and just what things are worth sending and put them in a box and send them home and give or throw the trunk away for it is not worth what it would cost to send it. My apples will be mellow when I get them don't you think so, The Sheet is full and I quit Your loveing husband A.F. Davis
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