| Summary: | During the war, Warrick served in the Coosa Home Guards, and he was a private in Company C of the 34th Alabama Infantry. A. P. Wideman was the brother of Warrick's wife, Martha. In the first letter, dated April 1, 1862, Warrick asks Wideman to check on Martha: "I want you to see my wife...soon as you can for I learn that they speak of puting [sic] her in as a feild [sic] hand and if it is so I want you to take her to your house and if she has to work I had rather she wold [sic] work for you then [sic] them." In the second letter, dated April 23, 1862, Wideman reports that "I was down at your house last Sunday and your family was well and doing well." He asks Warrick to give Martha instructions: "...tell her what do and if you want her to move up to my house and live with me I will go and move her but I have got a heap of work to do and I am verry [sic] bad behind with my crop." Transcripts of the letters are included.
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