Notes:
Letter from Thomas Christmas O'Mary to his wife,
Elizabeth Arnold O'Mary of Carroll County,
Georgia. Thomas is in the Georgia 56th regiment.
Letter:
Camp near Vicksburg
March 3 1863
Dear wife
I wil send you forty dollars by Thos. Chieves. I wil send you all I have but
$7.25 cts. our paroles is made out I think we wil draw ____ ___tion tomorrow. I
dont want to keepe money here more than enought to do me. we herd yesterday
that the enemy had ordered a surrender of this place and would storm it to day
if it was not surrendered. I want you to rite immediately as soon as you get
this. I shal want to hear from it. I hope I shal hear from you son. you may get
tyard of reading this but I hope you wil rite long letters and often. they have
quit giving us soap to wash our clothes. I wash mine and boil them. we must
kill the lice for camps is tormented with them. if I could be with you now I
could eat shalouts with you. I wish I could be their. I could see a heap of
pleasur with you and the children. I must close for this time. nothing more.
I remain your husband until death.
T.C. Omary
