1863-06-24: George Washington Cherry to Folks at home, letter
This document is a letter from George Washington Cherry near Wartrace, Tennessee, to his family at home in Alabama on June 24, 1863. The letter mentions Cherry's promotion to the rank of Captain, and lays out the logistics of having his wife, Fannie, visit him in camp. The letter also advises t...
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This document is a letter from George Washington Cherry near Wartrace, Tennessee, to his family at home in Alabama on June 24, 1863. The letter mentions Cherry's promotion to the rank of Captain, and lays out the logistics of having his wife, Fannie, visit him in camp. The letter also advises the family in paying off debts while inflation is high, and planting crops. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project. |
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1863-06-24: George Washington Cherry to Folks at home, letterThis document is a letter from George Washington Cherry near Wartrace, Tennessee, to his family at home in Alabama on June 24, 1863. The letter mentions Cherry's promotion to the rank of Captain, and lays out the logistics of having his wife, Fannie, visit him in camp. The letter also advises the family in paying off debts while inflation is high, and planting crops. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.[page 1]
Camp 45th Ala June 24th 1863
Dear Folks at home I have just received
your letter of 20th ult. I wrote you by
Culver only day before yesterday, and
told you about all that it would be
necessary to write in this. I am still in
good health, and faring finely since
I received the goodies from home
Our army here is still and quiet, and
nothing has transpired lately beyond
the regular monotonous routine of camp
duties. I have received my commission
as captain dating from June 5th ult
My expences will necessarily be greater
than they have been, but my pay is
increased in proportion. I will now
receive ($130.00) one hundred and thirty dollars
per month. In my last letter I
wrote you about paying me a visit
I would be very happy to have you
come if you can come early and
be under the protection of a reliable man
[in the margin:]My love to Ma and Sister and our little children
Worthy requests me to ask you to write to his wife at Tuskegee immediately and let her know if you come the time you will start and she will come too
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coming and going. I would not
have you to make the trip alone
or only in company with ladies for
several reasons. One is there are
no hotels in Wartrace where you
could get accommodations untill I
could learn you were here, and
another is we might move and your
condition would a bad one if here
without a protecter, amid the confusion
of a moving army. I have written
to Brownfield and think that he will
be willing to come, though I have
not heard from him yet. There
has been a flying rumor about camp
for a day or two that we would
shortly go back to Tullahoma which
is 18 miles from here on the R Road
to Chattanooga and would be as
convenient as here for your visit
I hope we will stay on the
rail road long enough for you
to make the trip provided you can
arrange to make it safely. There
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may be some difficulty in getting
board and lodging for you, provided
I cannot learn when you will get
here a day or two before hand, and
it would be best to get Brownfield to
telegraph me about it.
Living here will be pretty expensive
and you had better have along
plenty of money. I have on hand
here about one hundred dollars
but board and lodging is very
high and hard to get
Has your ma given out the
idea of selling Jack? I am confident
that she had better sell him, provided
the proceeds of his sale would pay the
estate out of debt, than to sell the land
Yet I would pay the debts of
the estate now even if it was
necessary to sell the land to do it
There has been no time within
my recollection that debts could
be as easily paid as the present
and I can’t believe that there will
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be as favorable a time in the
future I wrote to your
mother some time ago giving her
my views on the matter, but have
received no answer and consequently
do not know whether they agree with
her's or not
I would advise you to buy plenty
of wheat to do you twelve months
but would remind you of the -
necessity of watching it very closely
or the weevil might spoil it before
you find it out. From the tone
of your letters I think it unnessary
to advise the raising of plenty of -
vegetables. I am glad your potatoe
prospect is so good. Nothing could
please me more than to be able to
stay at home and enjoy the vegetables
and I think I would be happy
enough if I could stay there
even if I lived on bread & water
but Gods will be done. He
knows best. May God bless us all
G.W. Cherry
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Oh how I wish I could come home
for a week or two at least. I think
I could help you in fixing up our
little matters so I could rest easier
to be away. I do expect that when
this war is over we will be without
everything except our honor, our energy
and our God, but if we hold
that much we should consider -
ourselves rich. I would like very
much to hear of Ma & Sister every
time you write to me. I cannot help
but feel uneasy about them some-
times. I would like to write a
long letter to Ma alone but I
am confident she knows just how
I feel. I do believe I can read
all your feelings and perfectly. May
God soon unite us all to part no
more or earth and after that
unite us to part no more forever
God bless you all is my earnest
prayer Truly yours
G.W. Cherry
Bless our little childrenCherry, George Washington1863-06-24Cherry family; Cherry, George Washington--Correspondence; Confederate States of America. Army--Military life; Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 45th; Soldiers--Confederate States of America; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Purchasing power--United States--History; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic aspects;Agriculture -- Fruit and Vegetable Crops; Government & Politics -- Military; History -- 1838-1874: Sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction; Peoples -- Military Life; Peoples -- Agricultural Life; Peoples -- Domestic Life;Wartrace, Bedford County, Tennessee, United States1863-06-24Cherry-Goldsby Family Papers, 1827-2018, Auburn University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives, Auburn University, Auburn, AlabamaCollection 1262, Cherry-Goldsby Family Papers, Box 1, Folder 305 pages, 20.1 cmengAuburn, Ala. : Auburn University LibrariesThis image is the property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of this image are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this and other images in this collection, please contact Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at archives@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732.Stillimage; Text1262-18-027-077_Letter from George Washington Cherry to Folks at home 1863 June 24.pdfapplication/pdfDeeply RootedAuburn University Librarieshttp://cdm17353.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/cherry01/id/27 |