Confederate Letters

Submitted by Gloria B. Mayfield, Rusk Co Coordinator

Camp near

Palmetto Georgia

in the line of Battle

Sept the 23rd 1864

Dear Father & Mother as I have an opportunity of sending a letter across the River I will write you a few lines once more to let you know how I am getting along I am in tolerable good health at the present time I was Sick when Capt Booty Started

home and I did not get to write by him I have not been well Since we have been on this Campaign untill now but I think I am getting in prety good health again

the Rest of the Co is well Jack Wall is in better health than I ever saw him JT Herrin is out on a Scouting experdition in the rear of the yankies I herd from him about a week ago he was in fine health at that time Monroe Fite is Still at the

Hospital I herd from him a few days ago his arm is still very bad and I Suppose he his Sent up for a furlow and I Guess he will get it I have no news to write about War Officers this Campaign has been a long and worrisom one to us it will Soon

he four months Since we commenced this Campaign and there is not telling where we are a going to Stop at the yanks has So mutch larger force than we have they can flank us out of all most any place but the troops of the Department is still in

as good Spirits as ever it appear like nothing wont dis harten them there is a great many thinks that peace will be made by Christmas but I do not see any more prospect of Peace now than there was when the War first commenced I wish it would end for I am getting very tired of this war our three years is out and I see no more prospect of getting to come home now than I did when our twelve months was out I am going to hold on untill this Campaign is over and if I live I am a going to try very hard for a Furlow

Some thinks that as soon as this Campiagn is over what is left of our little Brigade will all be furlowed

Our Brigade has Suffered Severally on this Campaign not to have been in ary general engagements we have done all of our fightingon picketts we have had two killed dead and five wounded in our Company and there is two of them that was wounded that is Suposed to be Dead for we have not herd from them since they

was wounded it is Eli Banks and Thomas Hodges this is very badly writen I could not get any pen and ink to write with and I had to write with and old pencil and it is a going to bother you to read it the next time I write I hope I can get some paper and ink so nothing more a present but remaining your Son as ever untill Death

Henry Watson

PS you wrote me to find out where Green Hodges was but I have not seen his company since I will go see his regidment the first opportunity and try and find out whether he is there or not