The Civil War Love Letter Quilt by Rosemary Youngs

Author:Rosemary Youngs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2011-05-28T00:00:00+00:00

PAY AND BOUNTY

Feb. 28, 1864

Dear Wife and Children,

Well, I didn’t go back to bid you goodbye. I found it necessary when I got to Berlin to come right on to this place in order to get in time to make arrangements to secure my bounty, etc. I have enlisted in the 36th Regiment, and yesterday was taken into a room with nine others and stripped naked, and passed examination so slick that there wouldn’t have been any chance at all of getting clear if I had been drafted, but Orange Snell was thrown out, the last man I should have thought of.

Now about the pay and bounty. I expect $165 local bounty, which I think we had better pay for the sugar bush, 40 and all of our other debts, and you will get $5 a month from the state, and I think I can send home $5 a month more; and I hope Herbert will be able to raise your provisions and some to spare. Plant an acre of beans, and Emma must help hoe them and work in garden, etc., and do the best you can, all of you. The Government bounty I want to have salted down, so that it will keep. I got 44 brooms and sold at $2 per dozen. Poor little things.

Got the things you sent for and left them at L.A.’s. I wish you had them. I had a chance to get the brooms and myself brought down to Berlin, and did not get a chance to go to see Hiram and Dennis, and I have thought that it was best, perhaps, that I should have left the way I did, as it spared us all the pain of parting that we should have experienced had I not expected to return before my final departure. Herbert, I expect Mr. Dunlap will send for 100 buckets, and I want you to tighten the hoops and let him have as good as there is. I have been thinking that we are a good deal better off than the rest in the neighborhood that have left, in having a team and a boy old enough to use it and take care of things, and I hope you will succeed and take good care of things. I must close for this time, hoping to write again in a few days when we get a little settled. You needn’t write until I write again.

Your affectionate husband and father,

D. Coon

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