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1861-10-07
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<p>Camp Hall [Montgomery County] Oct. 7 the 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>I am well at this time and hope that these lines</p>
<p>may find you Injoying the same
Blessings</p>
<p>I received your fiew lines but was sorry to here</p>
<p>of my Darlings illness take good
care of him for</p>
<p>me while I am gon I wish Edwin to
bring</p>
<p>Down 2 pare of Drawers as soon as you</p>
<p>can make them Send him Down the
Mackadam</p>
<p>Road give him 75 cents to pay [tab?] with</p>
<p>Start him sevin in the mourning across at</p>
<p>owens ferry- he nows the way to Newburn</p>
<p>then tel him come Down the Rock
Road</p>
<p>[It?] will
be 18 miles from Newburn to camp] the camp is</p>
<p>[im]mediately on the left hand side
of the road. I wish you to send</p>
<p>my over coat also. Mr. Anthony
Owens informed me</p>
<p>[the?] mourning
I left home that A Newgan wants to rent</p>
<p>and I told him to go over and see
what arrangements</p>
<p>you all could make [Tin?] will do
what will be right</p>
<p>I think. There is 2 of your cousins
from FJoyd in camp</p>
<p>They are Major Howards sons Peter is ones name and</p>
<p>Henery is the others they are nice young men [Jessie Houres?]</p>
<p>is complaining with a sore throat
this mourning</p>
<p>Send Edwin as soon as you can for we will march as soon</p>
<p>as we get all awer arms that will
be in the course of</p>
<p>ten or twelve Days. May God Bless
and Preserve you all</p>
<p>till we meet agane your affectionate
Husband and</p>
<p>father write soon John N Carnahan</p>
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<p>Camp Hall [Montgomery County] Oct. 7 the 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>I am well at this time and hope that these lines</p>
<p>may find you Injoying the same
Blessings</p>
<p>I received your fiew lines but was sorry to here</p>
<p>of my Darlings illness take good
care of him for</p>
<p>me while I am gon I wish Edwin to
bring</p>
<p>Down 2 pare of Drawers as soon as you</p>
<p>can make them Send him Down the
Mackadam</p>
<p>Road give him 75 cents to pay [tab?] with</p>
<p>Start him sevin in the mourning across at</p>
<p>owens ferry- he nows the way to Newburn</p>
<p>then tel him come Down the Rock
Road</p>
<p>[It?] will
be 18 miles from Newburn to camp] the camp is</p>
<p>[im]mediately on the left hand side
of the road. I wish you to send</p>
<p>my over coat also. Mr. Anthony
Owens informed me</p>
<p>[the?] mourning
I left home that A Newgan wants to rent</p>
<p>and I told him to go over and see
what arrangements</p>
<p>you all could make [Tin?] will do
what will be right</p>
<p>I think. There is 2 of your cousins
from FJoyd in camp</p>
<p>They are Major Howards sons Peter is ones name and</p>
<p>Henery is the others they are nice young men [Jessie Houres?]</p>
<p>is complaining with a sore throat
this mourning</p>
<p>Send Edwin as soon as you can for we will march as soon</p>
<p>as we get all awer arms that will
be in the course of</p>
<p>ten or twelve Days. May God Bless
and Preserve you all</p>
<p>till we meet agane your affectionate
Husband and</p>
<p>father write soon John N Carnahan</p>
https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/John_Newton_Carnahan_Letters_[Ms2009-112]/Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_1007/Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_1007b.jpg
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<p>I will write you often you</p>
<p>must write often when you</p>
<p>get a letter from Wourthy</p>
<p>let me no what she says</p>
<p>to you all</p>
<p>JNC</p>
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<p>I will write you often you</p>
<p>must write often when you</p>
<p>get a letter from Wourthy</p>
<p>let me no what she says</p>
<p>to you all</p>
<p>JNC</p>
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John Newton Carnahan Letters (Ms2009-112)
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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Ms2009-112
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Civil War
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John Newton Carnahan, 1824-1862
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00485.xml">John Newton Carnahan Letters, 1861-1862</a>
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1861-1862
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This collection was donated to Special Collections in 2009.
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0.1 cu. ft.; 1 folder
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Letter, John Carnahan to Wife and Children, Camp Hall [Montgomery County Va.], October 7, 1861 (Ms2009-112)
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Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862
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1861-10-07
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2013-7-1
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Letters
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Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_1007
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Civil War
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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