Letters from my Great Great Grandfather
David Bidleman to his wife Janewhile in theService
of the Federal Army during the Civil War
| March 15, 1865 Camp Butler |
April 6, 1865 Forte Morgan
Mobile Bay |
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Dear Wife I am well and proper
You are well I do not know now soon we will organize and get away we have elected our officers and we have 84 men some have been sick with chills I want you to write and tell me whether your father had paid that one hundred dollars to Mrs. Whitlow for Popenoe he is onxious to know about it we have had considerable rain here the last two days but the ground is now drying off We are mustered in now and ??? pray commences we may leave here in two days and may not leave until next week Direct to me to Camp Butler in care of Capt Rose 47 Reg Illinois Volunteers David Bidleman  |
Dear Wife I arrived here last night after a tedious ??? sage of 24 hours from New Orleans we were nearly all sea sick and we were glad when we got ashore we are about 30 mile from the battle field I expect we will go to the front to morrow our division on corps is Gen Smith we occupy the Centre Mobile is not taken ???? freed we will have some work to do there was 300 wounded men sent to New Orleans last saturday so reports siege. My health is good and I am in good spirits (the rest is illegible goes onto one more line) |
| This letter not dated |
second half of letter not dated |
| Dear Jane |