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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_11a Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-11 PDF Text Text Camp Near cedar Bluff 20 miles Below Tazewell Court House Nov 1861 Dear wife and Children This is Sabeth morning agan the good Lord has spared my life and health for which I feal thankful and hope you are all injoying the same Blesings for which I no you all ought to be thankful I have injoyed better health for the last 3 months than I have for the last five years you are all seted round a cheearful fire to Day in the old homested all with your selves washed and your Clean Cloaths on babe in mothers lap a Cooing and Crowing passing from one lap to another nothing wanting to make your lnjoyment Compleat but my presence and I hope you will all Pray that I may join you all agane in this wourld and spend the Remainder of ower Time in this wourld Cheerfully labouring for eachothers good in time and Eternity I wish I could get a letter from you once a weeak tilling me how you all are and how everything is doing with you all I wish to no how ower horses are dooing and the Cows and Calves and the sows and pigs and the sheep how the small grain and if Mr Breeding is dooing if he wourks well yet and if Sutfin wants to [?] yet I wish to improve that old Plantation if I Ever get home agane and Peace is made so I can Rest at home I am not anxious to be at home in the Present State of things for I could not injoy one moments peace of mind and https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/John_Newton_Carnahan_Letters_[Ms2009-112]/Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_11/Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_11bc.jpg d86e393b58ff04aca773d7e682110cab Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_11bc Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-11 PDF Text Text <table><tr><th>Left Page</th><th>Right Page</th></tr><tr><td>without Peace of mind there is no satisfaction to be seen in this wourld if Peace was made and I could not get home I would be one of the most misurable of beings this you no has been my sentiments for sum times Let me no what Fugat Clarke is doing now and if he is wright on the subject of Religion or not I can see no reason why a man should forget his letter and in the army moore so than at home but to the contrary you see so mutch sin it ought to make a man flee closer to the sinners friends tell Isabella to wright me once a month I wish to no what that Miserable coward Russle Tipton is doing if he is still getting wood on ower land thare is lade up in store for him if I ever return sum labour to fix his fenses I am Detirmed to have ower fenses seperate and apart I Despise the hipocrit he is wee have a good Regment they are quiet men Respecting the Rights of all men Sitazien and Soldier But woe betide the man that acts contrary to what is wright. I commensed this letter this morning and agane after attending Prayer meeting I agane take my Pen cheerfully loved ones to correspond with you to Day was the first time in my life that I Ever saw a large congregation of men worship the living God without Female voices and faces and presence wee had a good meeting as I Ever attended I verrily believe the Lord was with us it would have dun you good to have Seen Sum 200 Soldiers</td><td> wourshiping my Redeemer in all the Devotion of the Followers of the Blessed Redeemer Ower Capton God preserve him is a Devoted Follower of my blessed Redeemer if you could hear his morning and Eavining Prayer for his Country his Company and their Familys you would say with me God save his ardent sole and Body from sickness and the Balls of the Enimy wee have men in ower Company that looks beyond this wourld for their Reward Hank Dowthet is as good a man as ever I have got acqu ainted with one that loves to talk about heaven and heavenly things they sung to Day that old Hymn I Am I a Soldier of the Cross a follower of the Lamb O if you could heard it Ring in the house of god as I did your sole would have all most left the confines of time and gon to sing with the Redeemer of the lord they sang give me Jesus you [may?] have all this wourld give me Jesus just to have seen and heard ower brave comerads sing this and notice the Profound silence you could not help Praying for their immortal Soles O I trust that this trip will be wourth moore to me than to and my country in hur trials my hart leap at the sound of wourship I take greeght Delight in the Rich troothe of the[Blessed?] Book I can say it is as a spring to the thirsty travellor or as a cooling Breese to the fevered Boddy god be blessed for his</td></tr></table> https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/John_Newton_Carnahan_Letters_[Ms2009-112]/Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_11/Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_11d.jpg 7cabc19d6b151922d924ee4361706dcf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_11d Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-11 PDF Text Text holey wourd I trust you all will cling close to the Redeemer and partake of his goodness O how can my tung magnify my Redeemer Enough he that left the Relems of Bliss and came Down to this ungodly wourld to make a way Possable for sin ful man to Escap to heaven give my love to Mrs Eliza Clark and John Clark I trust they will not forget the Blessed Redeemer My love to my 2 sisters tell them for me to cling close to Jesus he is the only friend wee have in time and Eternity and we can serve him without hindering any time from ower Daly avocation I now leave you in the hands of my Blessed Redeemer hoping he will preserve you all and myself to agane meet in the Flesh in good health this is my Daly Prayer your Affectionate Husband and Father John N Carnahan NB I say my health is better than usual I mean freeer from pane I have occasionaly a bad cold and Bowel complaint. You shall have the trooth at all times and circumstances I now weigh I90 pounds tell me when you wright how you are all Kiss my little Boy my sweet frisky Bright Eyed Boy. and all of them for their father Sophiah Your husband John N Carnahan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Newton Carnahan Letters (Ms2009-112) Description An account of the resource 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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Title A name given to the resource Letter, John Carnahan to Wife and Children, Camp Near Cedar Bluff [Tazewell County Va.], November, 1861 (Ms2009-112) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00485.xml" target="_blank"">John Newton Carnahan Letters (Ms2009-112)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource /kad Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.vt.edu/files/thumbnails/spec_forms/PubPermission.doc">Permission to publish material from the John Newton Carnahan collection must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Letters Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_11 Subject The topic of the resource Civil War Local/Regional History and Appalachian South United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. 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