Description

During the Civil War, Thomas Hall served in Company K of the 24th Alabama Infantry regiment. In the letter he describes an encounter with some people near the river, who were "[unionist] and supposed to harbour bush-whackers." [Large sections are missing from the first four pages of the letter, so the description of the incident is incomplete.] He also discusses possible battles; current troop movements ("we have been going backwards and forwards forming Lines of battle and changing camps until I am heartily sick of it"); his servant, who has been sick; the availability of food in camp; and his adjustment to life in the army: "Well I am getting so I can eat a good meal now and will not need the vegetables so much. But as for getting used to eating such fare I cant do it. I was in the Service last summer and fall about five or six months and I never could get used to eating tough beef &c. I was always tired of it. It is something like marching with me. I have marched many a mile but I never have got used to it yet. I get just as tired of marching now as I ever did; but still I can stand it as well as any of them nearly." A transcription is included.

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Alabama Textual Materials Collection

Record Contributed By

Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130