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Letter, Granville W. Belcher to Mary Caroline Belcher; 21 June 1864

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Identifier	mus.m042.0066
Title	Letter, Granville W. Belcher to Mary Caroline Belcher; 21 June 1864
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 21 June 1864 about his health and recent activities. 8" x 10"
Creator	Belcher, Granville W.
Date	21 June 1864
Coverage (time period)	June 1864
Resource type	Text
Format	Digital reproduction of an 8" x 10" 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 7
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
File size	480.329 KB
File extension	JPG
Width	1596
Height	1984
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Transcript	Chesterfield County, VA June the 21.64 My Dear Caroline, I seat myself this morning to write you a few lines to let you here from me once more. I have bin verry unwell for some time. I cant get anything to eat that suits my appetite. You know I never could get anything hardly when I wat at home that I could eat at this season of year. I got me one mess of scraps a few days ago. I got one chicken & had pay ten dollars for it. Was something over half grown. The new issue does not get any more than the old did before the discount was taken off. Caroline I have bin on picket some of three or four days since I have bin with my Company. The other day we was relieved at night. When we got up to start back, the Yankees commenced firing on us. Then we had to get out of way as we could. The balls flew thick around us but we hard to charge to Yankees out of their rifle pitts. That is hard to do. I had rather something ece (else). Caroline, they are fighting over Petersburg. Today will deside the thing whether the Yankees will get Petersburg or not. They faught there last Friday & Saturday. They lost was heavey on bothe sides so they say. I expect it would. I must close soon. You must write to me. Farewell for this time. You G.W. Belcher
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