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Samuel Calvin letters, May-August 1864
1864-08-30 Page 1
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La Grange Tenn, Aug. 30 1864. Friend Lou I have purposely delayed answering your letter untill Gen. Smith's army; which was reported on the march for this place should arrive, in order that I might communicate any intelligence respecting the boys of the 12th. They arrived here yesterday morning, and Steve Collins and James Morgan paid us a visit early in the afternoon. They report the boys of their Co. all safe and well. They are just now starting on the train for Memphis. Accept my grateful thanks for your kind letter of Aug. 18th containing many assurances of sympathy. It would indeed have been "good medicine," but thanks to a kind Providence, who exerciseth a tender care over even the most undeserving of His creatures, I was enabled to successfully resist the combined attack of the billious fever and two army surgeons; so that when your letter reached me I was so far recovered
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La Grange Tenn, Aug. 30 1864. Friend Lou I have purposely delayed answering your letter untill Gen. Smith's army; which was reported on the march for this place should arrive, in order that I might communicate any intelligence respecting the boys of the 12th. They arrived here yesterday morning, and Steve Collins and James Morgan paid us a visit early in the afternoon. They report the boys of their Co. all safe and well. They are just now starting on the train for Memphis. Accept my grateful thanks for your kind letter of Aug. 18th containing many assurances of sympathy. It would indeed have been "good medicine," but thanks to a kind Providence, who exerciseth a tender care over even the most undeserving of His creatures, I was enabled to successfully resist the combined attack of the billious fever and two army surgeons; so that when your letter reached me I was so far recovered
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