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Andrew F. Davis papers, January-October 1863
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and get back into Kentucky and if they do that then we may have to take another retrodade movement and drive them out again as we did last fall, but I hope not. Evry thing goes to prove to me that matters are becomeing desperate with them and that they will make a desperate movement somewhere soon to try and retrieve their heavy reverses which that have suffered here and at other points within the last thre months The change of sentiment which has taken place in the North for the last few weeks and our coscription is striking terror into them and they are more discouraged now than at any time since the commencement of the war and well they may be for now the North is fully aroused and they begin to see that we are in earnest and are bound to preserve the Union as it was, So [mai?] it be. I understand that it is the intention to fill up all the Regiments now in the field with conscripts and I think it will be a good thing to do so for if the Regt. that are now in the field ware all full it would in my estimation be all that would be needed and then I think they would be more available that way than any other for then they would have old and experienced officers over them and experienced soldiers to operate with which I consider would be of great benefit to all parties concerned. I can think of a good many that I would like to spend a few hours evry day in learning them to Shoulder arms and left, left, &c. The health of our Regt. and I might say the whole army is in most excellent condition. None of us here knows anything about where Wm. Macy is as we have not heard from him since Putnam saw him. Cap McKinney was suddenly taken with severe bleeding at the lungs a fewe evenings since and has been quite much under the weather ever since. He had been to Nashville for two days and I think had been discipating pretty freely while there and after he had been back a few hours it commenced on him. It it the first attact of the kind he has ever had and it alarms him very much and well it may. Well the sheet is full so I stop for a few days by signing myself your affectionate Husband A.F.Davis
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and get back into Kentucky and if they do that then we may have to take another retrodade movement and drive them out again as we did last fall, but I hope not. Evry thing goes to prove to me that matters are becomeing desperate with them and that they will make a desperate movement somewhere soon to try and retrieve their heavy reverses which that have suffered here and at other points within the last thre months The change of sentiment which has taken place in the North for the last few weeks and our coscription is striking terror into them and they are more discouraged now than at any time since the commencement of the war and well they may be for now the North is fully aroused and they begin to see that we are in earnest and are bound to preserve the Union as it was, So [mai?] it be. I understand that it is the intention to fill up all the Regiments now in the field with conscripts and I think it will be a good thing to do so for if the Regt. that are now in the field ware all full it would in my estimation be all that would be needed and then I think they would be more available that way than any other for then they would have old and experienced officers over them and experienced soldiers to operate with which I consider would be of great benefit to all parties concerned. I can think of a good many that I would like to spend a few hours evry day in learning them to Shoulder arms and left, left, &c. The health of our Regt. and I might say the whole army is in most excellent condition. None of us here knows anything about where Wm. Macy is as we have not heard from him since Putnam saw him. Cap McKinney was suddenly taken with severe bleeding at the lungs a fewe evenings since and has been quite much under the weather ever since. He had been to Nashville for two days and I think had been discipating pretty freely while there and after he had been back a few hours it commenced on him. It it the first attact of the kind he has ever had and it alarms him very much and well it may. Well the sheet is full so I stop for a few days by signing myself your affectionate Husband A.F.Davis
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