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Letter from
Leander F. Crumley
to his wife
Nancy E. Crumley
June 29th, 1862
Cedar Fort
Union County, Tenn June 29th 1862
Dear Companion I imbrace the
present opertunity of writing to inform you that I am well at
present Hopen these Lines will Reach you safe and find you all
well Two of our company come in from Knoxville to Day and says
that William would get a furlow to go home to Day all of Company
B is gone but 17 men and two waiters in the hospatal we are here
in fifteen or twenty miles of the Yankees and the news is that
the yankees is advancing on us and it may be that we will be in
a fight Before Long it is Reported that ther is some fifteen
thousand yankees on this side of the mountains Our Calvary
Charged on the Reare Garde of the Yankees the other Day and
taken all ther wagons we got Twelve wagons and never fired a gun
we got good News from Richmond yesterday they had been fighting
three days and they had routed the yankees and Stonewall Jackson
was after after the Yankees and say that he will have them or
follow them to main and he was close to Washington and the
Colloms of Smoke shode that the town was on fire it is Believed
that the yankees had set fire to the town and Left to Let our
men go in and take it and if our men gets Washington I think the
Yankees will get to considering and make pease But I don’t
think that pease will Be made as soon as some of the boys Dose
Some of the men in Knoxville is offering to Bet two thousand
Dollars that pease will be
(pg 2) made in twenty Days But I Don’t think so I have no
chance to write so you must Excuse Bad writing for I was out on
Pickett Last night and feel Drowsey and Dull and very Nervious
so if you cant Read it save it untill I come and I will try too
Read it for you I want to get a letter from you very Bad for the
Latest Letter I got from you was Dated the 9th June and has Been
Looking for one for two weeks But it has not come this makes
three Letters that I have wrote since I got any from you or I
did get one night before Last that was wrote the 21st April the
next morning after you got my Likness so I will say for you to
write a few Lines to Let me know how you all come on I have come
a cross some old Neighbors here and I think I shall get a permit
and go and stay all night with them They Live in half mile of
Camps they are By the name of Evans and Cox Rebecca Evans
married a man By the name Cox I think I shall go over and stay
all night Before Long to get milk to Eat Cox invited me to come
and I think I will go tell all the Boys that is at home to hurry
and come Back so the Rest of us will get the chance to come home
and see all the folks and Eat some peaches So I will come to a
close to go on Dress perrad so no more But Remains your husband
To N E Crumly
L F Crumly
Direct to Knoxville
Note in margin:
Our Army at Richmond has taken
Six thousand Yankees prisners and one hundred cannon and has the
Rest surrender so they have to fight or give up
submitted by Christine
Crumley Brown
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