1862-11-09: Samuel Thomas Williamson to Mary Louisa Mitchell Williamson, Letter
This document is a portion of a letter from Samuel Thomas "Trinley" Williamson to his wife Mary Louisa Mitchell Williamson, written from camp near Knoxville, Tenn., on November 9, 1862. He discusses the difficulties in getting mail and asks his wife to send him some warm articles of clothi...
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1862-11-09: Samuel Thomas Williamson to Mary Louisa Mitchell Williamson, Letter |
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This document is a portion of a letter from Samuel Thomas "Trinley" Williamson to his wife Mary Louisa Mitchell Williamson, written from camp near Knoxville, Tenn., on November 9, 1862. He discusses the difficulties in getting mail and asks his wife to send him some warm articles of clothing. He also describes items he is sending her which he has looted from abandoned Yankee camps. The Fitzpatrick family emigrated from Ireland to the Virginia colony in the early 1700s. Over time, the family moved from Virginia through the Carolinas and into Georgia before finally settling in Line Creek, Alabama and Verbena, Alabama. Several members of the family were active politically including William Fitzpatrick, who served in the Georgia legislature, and Benjamin Fitzpatrick, who served two terms as governor of Alabama. Sarah Fitzpatrick, a descendant of this family, married Columbus White Mitchell who was from a prominent Alabama family. The couple had ten children, seven of whom survived infancy. Three of their sons served in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy (Phil F. Mitchell, Joseph A. Mitchell, and Columbus White Mitchell). Their daughter Mary Louisa, a central figure of this collection, married Dr. Samuel "Trinley" Thomas Williamson in September 1861 shortly after the war began. Williamson was a medical doctor who also fought in the Confederate armed forces. With Williamson and the three Mitchell brothers away fighting, Mary Louisa was left home to run the household with only the help of her sick mother and her sisters. At this time she was also pregnant with her first child who was born in 1862. All three brothers and Williamson survived the war. The family continued to live in Alabama following the Civil War. Since the mid-1900s, some branches of the family have spread out while some continue to live in Alabama. 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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1862-11-09: Samuel Thomas Williamson to Mary Louisa Mitchell Williamson, LetterThis document is a portion of a letter from Samuel Thomas "Trinley" Williamson to his wife Mary Louisa Mitchell Williamson, written from camp near Knoxville, Tenn., on November 9, 1862. He discusses the difficulties in getting mail and asks his wife to send him some warm articles of clothing. He also describes items he is sending her which he has looted from abandoned Yankee camps. The Fitzpatrick family emigrated from Ireland to the Virginia colony in the early 1700s. Over time, the family moved from Virginia through the Carolinas and into Georgia before finally settling in Line Creek, Alabama and Verbena, Alabama. Several members of the family were active politically including William Fitzpatrick, who served in the Georgia legislature, and Benjamin Fitzpatrick, who served two terms as governor of Alabama. Sarah Fitzpatrick, a descendant of this family, married Columbus White Mitchell who was from a prominent Alabama family. The couple had ten children, seven of whom survived infancy. Three of their sons served in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy (Phil F. Mitchell, Joseph A. Mitchell, and Columbus White Mitchell). Their daughter Mary Louisa, a central figure of this collection, married Dr. Samuel "Trinley" Thomas Williamson in September 1861 shortly after the war began. Williamson was a medical doctor who also fought in the Confederate armed forces. With Williamson and the three Mitchell brothers away fighting, Mary Louisa was left home to run the household with only the help of her sick mother and her sisters. At this time she was also pregnant with her first child who was born in 1862. All three brothers and Williamson survived the war. The family continued to live in Alabama following the Civil War. Since the mid-1900s, some branches of the family have spread out while some continue to live in Alabama. 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 Near Knoxville Tenn
Nov 9th 1862
My Dear Wife
I wrote you
a short letter on yesterday, just to
lett you know where I was; I have
an opportunity to send you a letter to
Montgomery, tomorrow, where it can
be mailed to you & that you will
be sure to get it, I received a letter
from you dated the 28th of Oct. which
I was so glad to see, and to hear from
you & the babie, it was on the march
from Cumberland Gap to Knoxville when
I received it, and on my arrival at Kno-
xville Major Holt handed me a letter
from you. the one that you sent by
Joe to be mailed in Montgomy, but
insted of mailing it he gave it to
Major Holt, to hand it to me, But
when Major Holt arrived at Knoxville
he heard of our evacuating Kentucky,
and that we would soon be at
Knoxville, so he awaited our arrival
He said that he would have sent
it to me but he did not know
where to direct it, and he thought
that it would be best to keep it
untill he saw me so he has had
the letter in his pocket on one
month, We will leave this place
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tomorrow morning, for [London ?]
where we will stay for a few days
from there we will go to Nashville
[Town ?] or near that place, we will
[march ?] on foot the distant of two hundred
miles, I am fearful that we will
have a hard time of it, but I
have got so that I can stand hard-
ship, I cannot tell you where to
direct your letters, but you must
be sure to write to me by Capt
Midleton, he will leave Montgomery about
the [scratched out: Twentith] 20th of No for his company
I wish you would send by him
the five dollar gold piece that
I have, I dont know where it is
but I think that it is in my trunk
in a small box, be sure and send
it, also send me the conforter you
made for me & a pair of pants
I want the warmest pair that
I have, dont send the pair that
Granie gave me, send the
Brown corded pair & one
or two pair of socks, that will
be all that I will want, untill
I come home, I will try and
come home as soon as I can, I
will not, say what time for fear
that I will disappoint you; it
is not as I say, if it
was so I would have been home
long before this, I have a strong
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notion of [nursing ?], if you look at
my diplomen you will see that
I have not been practising med-
icine five years, It will not be
five years untill March, when
I came home I think that I
will remain to stay at home if
I can I am tired of this war
I want to see you & the babie
so bad that I dont know what
to do, I try to be as cheerful as
I can, I have not said anything
about [nursing ?] to anyone in camp
I dont want you to say anything
about it, for fear that I might
fail in geting off. I heard that
we were going to Mobile, or to
Pollard, below Montgomery, I would
have written what I had heard
but I new that you would be
looking for us to pas through
Montgomery and as we are not
going through you would
be disappointed, not wishing
to disappointing you, I did not write
you all that I have heard about
going through Montgomery as
others has don, I know what
disappointments are so I do not
wish to disappoint you in any
way, we have very cold weath
up here, We now have good tents
& I have three good blankets
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& a good over coat that I got from
the yankys with three blankets &
a good over coat I keep very warm.
I will send this letter by Sargt. J. R.
Adams, he is from our company, I also send
three books, a peace of opium that
I want you to take good care of it,
I send you half I will keep the other
half from fear that I might get
sick and would need it, the peace
that I got was worth about twenty
five Dollars, the peace that I
send you is worth about fifteen
Dollars, also a package of [Bromo ?]
two [probangs ?], a small peace of
Buck skin that will do to clean
silver (I dont wish it to be cut)
& a thimble for [Lucie ?], all which
I took from the Yanky camps,
If it had not of bin for the
retreate from Kentucky, I could
have sent you a good many
little things that would have
been a service to you; but
they were all thrown away; this
paper that I am writing on I picked
up in the yanky camp.
I am glad to know that I am
so much thought of by the people
in the neighborhood, you must
go and see them and keep on the
good side of them, for when
I get home I want to make 1862-11-09Williamson, Samuel ThomasWilliamson Family; Mitchell Family; Alabama--Social life and customs--19th century; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Correspondence; Peoples -- Military Life; Peoples -- Domestic Life; Government & Politics -- Military; History -- 1838-1874: Sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction;Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, United States1862-11-09Fitzpatrick-Mitchell-Williamson Family Papers, 1850-1989, Auburn University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives, Auburn University, Auburn, AlabamaRecord Group 1223, Fitzpatrick-Mitchell-Williamson Papers, Folder 384 pages, 27 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 the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at archives@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732.Stillimage; Text;1862-11-09_WilliamsonST_to_WilliamsonMLM_letterapplication/pdfDeeply RootedAuburn University Librarieshttp://cdm17353.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/fmw01/id/50 |