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<p>Camp on Beaver Creek 40 miles from Pound gap</p>
<p>Dec January 17the 1861 [1862]</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>Through the Blessings of a</p>
<p>kind Providence I am still in the land of the living</p>
<p>and except a bad bowel Complaint am enjoying good</p>
<p>health wee met the Enimy on the 10the of this month</p>
<p>3 miles west of Prestonsburg and gave him Battle ower</p>
<p>loss was 10 killed and sum 15 wounded their loss is estimated</p>
<p>at from 3 to 5 hundred their loss must ben grate or they</p>
<p>would have attacked us agane the fight began about one</p>
<p>oclock and lasted untill after Dark leaving ower men</p>
<p>in possession of the Battlefield ower men [got?] of their ded</p>
<p>and wounded that Night and wee are still making ower</p>
<p>way sloley to Pound gap and it is supposed wee will</p>
<p>go to Abingdon thare to await orders from the war</p>
<p>Department wee may go to into winter quarters</p>
<p>for a while unless ower Presence is needed</p>
<p>badly Elswhere Colonel Triggs [Robert C. Trigg] Regment did not fire</p>
<p>a gun ower company and Capton Dickersons [Andrew Dickerson] Company</p>
<p>ware ordered a way with 2 cannon 3 miles from the</p>
<p>battlefield to guard a Road comeing from Salliersville [Salyersville, KY]</p>
<p>supposed a Company of fifteen hundred war advanseing</p>
<p>on us in that Direction wee Stayed 2 owers after the</p>
<p>Ball was opened ower Regment was as cool as a summer</p>
<p>Spring in a Shady grove Colonel calls us his Bull</p>
<p>dogs and General Marshall [Humphrey Marshall] sayes wee are the Boyes</p>
<p>that pleases him wee arr cool he makes his quarters</p>
<p>close to ower Regment at the Begining of the ingagement</p>
<p>Col Trigs [Robert C. Trigg] Regment was stationed behind Capton</p>
<p>Jefferey Artilery Company to guard the Artilery</p>
<p>in cas of a charge I felt Safe all the time trusting</p>
<p>to God to guard me on the Battlefield as well as</p>
<p>at home I prommised you when I left you my</p>
<p>pen should convey the Truth and nothing Els</p>
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<p>Camp on Beaver Creek 40 miles from Pound gap</p>
<p><s>Dec</s> January 17the 1861 [1862]</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>Through the Blessings of a</p>
<p>kind Providence I am still in the land of the living</p>
<p>and except a bad bowel Complaint am enjoying good</p>
<p>health wee met the Enimy on the 10the of this month</p>
<p>3 miles west of Prestonsburg and gave him Battle ower</p>
<p>loss was 10 killed and sum 15 wounded their loss is
estimated</p>
<p>at from 3 to 5 hundred their loss must ben grate or they</p>
<p>would have attacked us agane the fight began about one</p>
<p>oclock and lasted untill after Dark leaving ower men</p>
<p>in possession of the Battlefield ower men [got?] of their
ded</p>
<p>and wounded that Night and wee are still making ower</p>
<p>way sloley to Pound gap and it is supposed wee will</p>
<p>go to Abingdon thare to await orders from the war</p>
<p>Department wee may go to into winter quarters</p>
<p>for a while unless ower Presence is needed</p>
<p>badly Elswhere Colonel Triggs [Robert C. Trigg] Regment did
not fire</p>
<p>a gun ower company and Capton Dickersons [Andrew Dickerson] Company</p>
<p>ware ordered a way with 2 cannon 3 miles from the</p>
<p>battlefield to guard a Road comeing from Salliersville
[Salyersville, KY]</p>
<p>supposed a Company of fifteen hundred war advanseing</p>
<p>on us in that Direction wee Stayed 2 owers after the</p>
<p>Ball was opened ower Regment was as cool as a summer</p>
<p>Spring in a Shady grove Colonel calls us his Bull</p>
<p>dogs and General Marshall [Humphrey Marshall] sayes wee are
the Boyes</p>
<p>that pleases him wee arr cool he makes his quarters</p>
<p>close to ower Regment at the Begining of the ingagement</p>
<p>Col Trigs [Robert C. Trigg] Regment was stationed behind Capton</p>
<p>Jefferey Artilery Company to guard the Artilery</p>
<p>in cas of a charge I felt Safe all the time trusting</p>
<p>to God to guard me on the Battlefield as well as</p>
<p>at home I prommised you when I left you my</p>
<p>pen should convey the Truth and nothing Els</p>
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<p>so I will till you about ower suffering here wee </p>
<p>have seen the Eliphant Ever sins Christmass wee went</p>
<p>8 Dayes on six meals laying 3 nights without Pitching</p>
<p>ower tents and infact wee have went on half Rations</p>
<p>Ever sins wee <s>will</s> have ben in Kentucky I weighed</p>
<p>yestarday and weighed 183 pound when I went into camp</p>
<p>at Christiansburg I wayed 168 pounds you will</p>
<p>hear of men Suffering but it is frequently made larger</p>
<p>than what it Realy is I do believe this Regment</p>
<p>has marched further than any other in the Southern</p>
<p>Confederacy wee ar sure to fix ower tents with a good</p>
<p>bed of straw or leaves or corn stalks or Brush or</p>
<p>[Reades?] wee Baked ower Bred one night on fense Rails</p>
<p>so we get a nough wee are contented with ower lot</p>
<p>this is a hasty written letter and you must excus</p>
<p>this if it is not as satisfactory as you could wish</p>
<p>but you will hear of the Battle through the Papers</p>
<p>I mus till you Colonel Moore lost in the ingage</p>
<p>ment 5 men
and Colonel Williams [John S. Williams] 5 men</p>
<p>I received your verry kind letter Dated on the 5 of
this</p>
<p>month and hesitated in wrighting this untill</p>
<p>I new sumwhat mor of ower Destination</p>
<p>and would have Dun so if it had not ben to calm</p>
<p>your feeres on my account you must Still</p>
<p>Supplicate a throne of [grane?] on my behalf</p>
<p>I forget you not Day or nigh I have got the</p>
<p>lock of my boys hare next my hart o how I long</p>
<p>to see him and you all Direct your letters</p>
<p>as usual your Affectionate Husband</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
<p>The Agetant [Adjutant] gave me a Belgium Rifle the</p>
<p>Day after the Battle this shoots 6 hundred yards</p>
<p>If l Return home it shall come with me as a trophy</p>
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<p>so I will till you about ower suffering here wee </p>
<p>have seen the Eliphant Ever sins Christmass wee went</p>
<p>8 Dayes on six meals laying 3 nights without Pitching</p>
<p>ower tents and infact wee have went on half Rations</p>
<p>Ever sins wee will have ben in Kentucky I weighed</p>
<p>yestarday and weighed 183 pound when I went into camp</p>
<p>at Christiansburg I wayed 168 pounds you will</p>
<p>hear of men Suffering but it is frequently made larger</p>
<p>than what it Realy is I do believe this Regment</p>
<p>has marched further than any other in the Southern</p>
<p>Confederacy wee ar sure to fix ower tents with a good</p>
<p>bed of straw or leaves or corn stalks or Brush or</p>
<p>[Reades?] wee Baked ower Bred one night on fense Rails</p>
<p>so we get a nough wee are contented with ower lot</p>
<p>this is a hasty written letter and you must excus</p>
<p>this if it is not as satisfactory as you could wish</p>
<p>but you will hear of the Battle through the Papers</p>
<p>I mus till you Colonel Moore lost in the ingage</p>
<p>ment 5 men
and Colonel Williams [John S. Williams] 5 men</p>
<p>I received your verry kind letter Dated on the 5 of
this</p>
<p>month and hesitated in wrighting this untill</p>
<p>I new sumwhat mor of ower Destination</p>
<p>and would have Dun so if it had not ben to calm</p>
<p>your feeres on my account you must Still</p>
<p>Supplicate a throne of [grane?] on my behalf</p>
<p>I forget you not Day or nigh I have got the</p>
<p>lock of my boys hare next my hart o how I long</p>
<p>to see him and you all Direct your letters</p>
<p>as usual your Affectionate Husband</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
<p>The Agetant [Adjutant] gave me a Belgium Rifle the</p>
<p>Day after the Battle this shoots 6 hundred yards</p>
<p>If l Return home it shall come with me as a trophy</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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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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Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862
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