Letter from
General M. Jackson
to his parents
Nancy E. Crumley
October 20th, 1861

Camp Washington N. C.   Oct the 20 1861

Dear Father and Mother & Brother & Sister to you all you now not half how glad I was to rective a letter form you and read hit I was glad that I co(u)ld read hit.  hit found us well I hoping this few lines may find you all well I have changed sense I left home I think if I was at home you think of me about what I said when we parted our last time. You told me that you intended to quit drinking and swearing and go to work right when a man promises himself anything and sticks to it he is mighty apt to do it you know that I use to thot I could not talk with out an oath but since I got in camp I hardly ever think about swearing because I have something to do and to think about and I think if you will look around and see where your children is and where they may be and that before long that you would have something to do and to think about as well as I   Pa I want you to become religious and pray for us poor soldiers for I know that if you were hear a while and see and hear what is going on in camps day and night & the enemy high and you expecting to have to go in to a battle and fight the enemy in the defense of your country and probably never come out alive and you knowing all the time that as the fait is so be it unto you So repent Believe & be baptised and ye shall be saved father you may never see us boys anymore on earth But if we never meet on earth again I want us all to be prepared to meet in a better world than this father mother brothers & sisters I want to see you all very much but we may never have the pleasure of so doing I will close by asscribing myself your son and brother until Death

General M. Jackson S.C.O.

Camp Washington N. C.  Oct the 20 1861

Dear Brother L.F.C. I now set my self down to let you know that I receive your letter last Friday hit found us well and well satisfied and hope these few lines will reach you injoying the same blessing Dock you wrote to me about my interagatories rit to you in my other letter about ___ corn and fower and how I wanted it don and also in Verlinda letter what I want don about the fower as I told Verlinda the way I left home to tell father to let her father pull that over at his hous if he wanted to and now Dock if they wont do as I left the riting with you and ____ and if they wont do that away just let them ____ tell father that he need not be uneasy about the money I o him if I live to drawing money I will pay him  I'm along wais from home they must do just as I am want them to do if not I shall come home wen I get ready tel old mack he must quit grumbling about the way I left my fair and if he wont I wont no whether any of them will see me ther I haven't got nothing to rite about my afares beyond more about that then I no and as to how camp fair we fair very well  we sleep on straw and pinetops but it makes a very good bed I must come to close I will rite to father on the other side it is agiting work and I must come to a close  G. M. Jackson   Mother Alfred is gumping and skibin and pling (playing) marvels jest like he was at home.

submitted by Christine Crumley Brown

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