1 50 1 https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/4780/Ms2015-051_ConleyIsaiah_1863_1117a.jpg 0005b408c6063c8be77db9d7f479c64f PDF Text Text Plymouth, N.C. Nov. 17 1863 My Dear Wife, Your very welcome letter of the 7th inst. has just reached me. It is the first I have had since the one dated 21st Ult. I am glad to know that you are all so well. I am still enjoying good health. I think I have got over the Chills & fever for this season. Everything is exceedingly dull here, no news of anykind. We however have good comfortable quarters and are living very well. I had a letter from Martin this evening_ written the 31st Ult. He was well, but says they had some pretty hard marching. They were at the same place that he was when he wrote to you. Bealton Stations. I think I can disperse of the ballance [sic] of that Minesota [sic] land this Winter. If I can, our Western https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/4780/Ms2015-051_ConleyIsaiah_1863_1117b.jpg 81d8d6d0ab0ad77670ad4046f22c9ab6 PDF Text Text land Speculation will not be a bad one. We expect to be paid again sometime this month. Tell Charlotte she had better try and Captivate Mr. Miller. and I should think the chances were pretty good, as he has Com- menced by petting El. Pvt. Abe Beltz told me about the money he borrowed from you. it will be all right when pay day comes. I am sorry you did not Get the Company Roll I sent you. I sent it with Wm Huffman and told him to send it to you from Bedford. I will write to him about it. It may be laying at Bedford. You speak about buckwheat cakes. I wish I had some of them, but we will get plenty of them this winter, if we stay here, https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/4780/Ms2015-051_ConleyIsaiah_1863_1117c.jpg 08d84c09205486391a397c2ed12f41eb PDF Text Text We have got an Officer’s Mess started. Some 18 Officers are in it. We have sent to Baltimore for a large cooking stove. when we get it here, we will be able to live just as well a[s] at a hotel. We can get plenty of buckwheat often & Corn meal here. We have an excellent cook. He was once Steam boat cook on the Ohio river. We live now very well- have fresh beef & Pork, Turkey, Chickens, Geese, Ducks &c._ not all at once however, but that consti- tutes about our Change in Meats. We put good butter, but have to pay 40 cts. Per lb. Our boarding will cost us about $15 or $16 per month. I should like very much to pay you a visit this winter, but it will be out of my power, as there is at least a dozen Officers to go yet before it will Come my https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/4780/Ms2015-051_ConleyIsaiah_1863_1117d.jpg db3511880ba9389896d1cf7f867d0584 PDF Text Text time again. There Can only about two go at a time. Beside this it is rather expensive to go Often. My trip home last Summer Cost me over $100- I hope Annie & Harry will continue as hearty as you say they are now. Remember me to Charlotte & the boys. Write Often Affecty Your Husband I. Conley 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 Isaiah Conley Civil War Correspondence and Research Materials, 1862-2000s (Ms2015-051) Subject The topic of the resource Civil War Description An account of the resource The Isaiah Conley Civil War Correspondence and Research Materials includes two series of primary and secondary sources. Series I: Letters, Transcripts, and Narratives, includes 98 letters written by Isaiah Conley to his wife during his service in the 101st Pennsylvania Regiment between 1861 and 1865. This series also has unpublished and published versions of Conley's escape from Confederate captivity. 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Title A name given to the resource Isaiah Conley Civil War Correspondence, November 17, 1863 (Ms2015-051) Subject The topic of the resource Civil War Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Conley, Isaiah, 1830-1901 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01829.xml" target="_blank">See the finding aid for the Isaiah Conley Civil War Correspondence and Research Materials. </a> Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. <a href="http://spec.lib.vt.edu/" target="_blank">Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863-11-17 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 the Isaiah Conley Civil War Correspondence and Research Materials 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 Ms2015-051_ConleyIsaiah_1863_1117 Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. 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