Thomas Letters - August 12, 1863

(transcriptions only)

< previous letter | index | next letter >

Document Type: Autograph Letter Signed

Author: George Thomas
Date: August 12, 1863
Place: Vicksburg, Mississippi
To: Minerva Thomas

Physical Description: Ink on paper; 2 pages (25 x 20 cm.) on 1 folded sheet

Number: MSN/CW 5014-47

Transcribed by: Brandy Hutton and Jeremy Kiene, 2000-01, 2006

Transcription
(Please click on our Technical Details button at left
for more information on transcription conventions,
image scanning conventions, etc.)

Page 1 Images: 150 DPI – 100 DPI – 72 DPI

Vicksburg Miss
Augt the 12th 1863

Dear Minerva

     Everything is so quiet and free from Excitement in and about this place that it is not possible for me to give a letter interest as often as twice a week. So you will have to do with a less number of letter or take them with but little in them. However I will try to write often Enough to keep you informed of my wellfare
     We are still at this point but are looking for orders to go to Natchez Every day. One Brigade of our Division Embarked yesterday and nothing keeps us here but the want of Transports to take us away. All seem anxious to go. It is generally believed that Natchez is a pleasant place to Stay, and it is the impression that our Division is to Garrison the place for a time. I think I will like this myself. We will soon have passed the hot season of the year After which it will be quite pleasant to spend a quiet month or two in a southern City
     I think there is not as much sickness

Page 2

in the army now as there was in the Early summer months, and although it undeniable that it is much hotter here than at home, yet I have suffered but little inconvenience from it, This is owing to the fact I suppose that I am so little Exposed to the sun.
You insist upon my resigning and coming home this fall. You base you anxiety for my doing so upon a fear that I may permanently lose my health. I have at times had that fear myself, and had determined whenever I became convinced that I could not get well in the army to tender my resignation. But I am now thinking that I cant come in upon that plea, for I am getting in prety good health again. And much as I should like to come home Either upon a visit or to stay, I should prefer being restored to health and remain in the army than go home with broken down health
With regard to matters about home I want you to manage them as you think best. If possible keep the children at their book in some way I Expect to find Scott quite a farmer when I come home But I doant want him among his other duties to neglect his books I have had no letter from you for some day. I fear a great deal of mail for the army was burned up on the Ruth [i.e., steamer Ruth, destroyed by fire on 4 August 1863 near Cairo, Illinois]

Your Affecionatee Husband
George Thomas

Images: 150 DPI – 100 DPI – 72 DPI

Envelope, front Images: 150 DPI – 100 DPI – 72 DPI

Envelope, back Images: 150 DPI – 100 DPI – 72 DPI

Transcription last modified: 29 Jun 2006 at 11:20 AM EDT

< previous letter | index | next letter >


Related Collections:	Colonial & Revolutionary America	Early National & Antebellum America	American Civil War	Modern America	Sports


	University of Notre Dame Copyright © 2006, 2009, 2011		Dept. of Special Collections University of Notre Dame 102 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556		Telephone: 574-631-0290 Fax: 574-631-6308 E-Mail: rarebook @ nd.edu