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Letter, Granville W. Belcher to Mary Caroline Belcher; 6 December 1863

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Identifier	mus.m042.0044
Title	Letter, Granville W. Belcher to Mary Caroline Belcher; 6 December 1863
Description	From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on 6 December 1863 about recent military action and the war. 7.5" x 9.5"
Creator	Belcher, Granville W.
Date	6 December 1863
Coverage (time period)	December 1863
Resource type	Text
Format	Digital reproduction of a 7.5" x 9.5" two-page letter.
Language	English
Publisher	University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. (electronic version)
Notes	A finding aid for this collection is available online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m042.htm
Rights	Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Contributing institution	Special Collections, McCain Library and Archives, University of Southern Mississippi.
Collection	M042 Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters.
Source	Box 1, Folder 5
Digital repository	University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections.
Digital collection	Historical Manuscripts and Photographs.
File extension	JPG
Color space	RGB
Bit depth	24 bit color

Title	Page 1
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Transcript	Camp near Gunction December the 6 1863 My Dear Caroline, I take my pen in this morning to write you a few lines to let you no that I yet in land of the liveing. The time appears verry lonesome to me. I cannot get a letter to cheer me in my lonesome hours. I have bin looking for a letter from you for the last past two weeks but not one letter have I recieved from you since the fifteenth of November. The letter dated 15 November was the last. Oh Caroline, write to me my dear if you please because it is company for me to rad you letters. It does not take you long to write a few lines, you no that as well as I do. I have news of any importance. Old Meade has retreated & left a great many cooking utensils he hand him besides numbers of the things that I could mention. Our Cavaldry tuck a great eel of ammunusion from the Yankees, some few wagons, several hundred prisoners. A portion of our devision left here this morning for Richmond. They had orders to go back to their winter quarters a few miles below Richmond on James River. I expect our brigade will leave her soon for Petersburg. That is the calculation. Dyrect you letters to Richmond, VA. If we go to Petersburg, I will write to you as soon as we stop.
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