18thVirginia
Major
- Joined
- Sep 8, 2012
I thought it would be interesting to read some of the words that Civil War soldiers actually wrote home to wives and beloveds.
Letter,19 March 1863, from Charles W. Hill, serving with the 5th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in New Bern, N.C., to his wife Martha Hill in West Medway, Mass. -
I want to see you very much but I think it the
wisest way is just feel that it can not be now and
wait patiently for the time to come. Let us each
cheerfully do the work before us whatever it may
be and the time will not seem long I love to feel as I always have been
able to that I can rely on your love and regard what ever others
may think or say. It makes a man feel
strong to know that he is all the world to
somebody But I must stop goodnight Charles
See more at: http://blogs.lib.unc.edu/civilwar/index.php/2013/03/19/19-march-1863-2/#sthash.aNI3s87D.dpuf
Letter,19 March 1863, from Charles W. Hill, serving with the 5th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in New Bern, N.C., to his wife Martha Hill in West Medway, Mass. -
I want to see you very much but I think it the
wisest way is just feel that it can not be now and
wait patiently for the time to come. Let us each
cheerfully do the work before us whatever it may
be and the time will not seem long I love to feel as I always have been
able to that I can rely on your love and regard what ever others
may think or say. It makes a man feel
strong to know that he is all the world to
somebody But I must stop goodnight Charles
See more at: http://blogs.lib.unc.edu/civilwar/index.php/2013/03/19/19-march-1863-2/#sthash.aNI3s87D.dpuf