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<p>Tazewell County Virginia Nov15 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>I agane wright you that</p>
<p>I am in good health after 4 dayes marching</p>
<p>I Stayed last night at Harold Peerys with</p>
<p>Brother Thomas tonight I am with Johnny</p>
<p>D he came up to camp and found me and took</p>
<p>me Down to his grand fathers Johnny is a</p>
<p>good Boy Brother Thomas will go on with us</p>
<p>Mr Preston a sun in law of Mr Peerys is heer</p>
<p>from Kentuckey a Refugee I am glad I</p>
<p>have formed an acquaintence with him in</p>
<p>case we can rout the Linconights [Lincolnights] we are</p>
<p>within 60 miles of his advans forses we will</p>
<p>take up ower time of march at 6 in the morning</p>
<p>I think we will halt in 2 Day and wate For</p>
<p>Reinforcements I wish you to wright me at</p>
<p>Tazewell Court house the letter will follow</p>
<p>me if Directed property wee marched yestarday </p>
<p>in the Rain to Day in the mud sometimes [?]</p>
<p>mouth Deep we are moveing sloly not moore</p>
<p>than 14 miles per day Colonel Trig is verry</p>
<p>Kind to me now I went to him last</p>
<p>night got of to stay with Thomas tonight</p>
<p>with John D</p>
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<p>Tazewell County Virginia Nov15 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>I agane wright you that</p>
<p>I am in good health after 4 dayes marching</p>
<p>I Stayed last night at Harold Peerys with</p>
<p>Brother Thomas tonight I am with Johnny</p>
<p>D he came up to camp and found me and took</p>
<p>me Down to his grand fathers Johnny is a</p>
<p>good Boy Brother Thomas will go on with us</p>
<p>Mr Preston a sun in law of Mr Peerys is heer</p>
<p>from Kentuckey a Refugee I am glad I</p>
<p>have formed an acquaintence with him in</p>
<p>case we can rout the Linconights [Lincolnights] we are</p>
<p>within 60 miles of his advans forses we will</p>
<p>take up ower time of march at 6 in the morning</p>
<p>I think we will halt in 2 Day and wate For</p>
<p>Reinforcements I wish you to wright me at</p>
<p>Tazewell Court house the letter will follow</p>
<p>me if Directed property wee marched yestarday </p>
<p>in the Rain to Day in the mud sometimes [?]</p>
<p>mouth Deep we are moveing sloly not moore</p>
<p>than 14 miles per day Colonel Trig is verry</p>
<p>Kind to me now I went to him last</p>
<p>night got of to stay with Thomas tonight</p>
<p>with John D</p>
https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/John_Newton_Carnahan_Letters_[Ms2009-112]/Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_1115/Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_1115b.jpg
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<p>Imbrace my Babe for me tell all the Children</p>
<p>how I love them the time is com that I am torn</p>
<p>from them but I hop that you will all pray</p>
<p>that good Lord that Rules in heaven that</p>
<p>I ma be spared to come Back to live with you</p>
<p>all in pea e and quiet the Remainder of my</p>
<p>Dayes God Bless you all is the prayer</p>
<p>of your affectionate Husband and Father</p>
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<p>Imbrace my Babe for me tell all the Children</p>
<p>how I love them the time is com that I am torn</p>
<p>from them but I hop that you will all pray</p>
<p>that good Lord that Rules in heaven that</p>
<p>I ma be spared to come Back to live with you</p>
<p>all in pea e and quiet the Remainder of my</p>
<p>Dayes God Bless you all is the prayer</p>
<p>of your affectionate Husband and Father</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, Tazewell County Va., November 15, 1861 (Ms2009-112)
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Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862
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1861-11-15
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Letters
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Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_1115
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Civil War
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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