Stith Stumpff (1 results)

Letter. Condition: Good. Letter. Paper sheet measures 8" x 10". Folded three times. 4 pages of written content. A few spots and toning to the paper. Good condition. Transcription of contents is slightly difficult with several misspelled words. Letter reads: Camp Near Shelbyville Tennessee april the 14th 1864 Dear Mother i recived your kind letter of the 3th a was truly glad to here from you all once more and to here you all was well this letter leaves me in good health and i hope When this letter reachs you it may find you all enjoying the same grate Bessing i have no news to Write at present every thing is quiet in front our regiment started from nashville last Saturday morning for Chattanooga We are going to stay at Shelbyville un till morning then i supose we will march in the Direction of chattanooga the buoys are all well and in good spirits their is no rebel army nearer than richmond their will be the next big fight and i hope the last one during this war We have got one hundred thousand troops in front ready to march in the direction of richmond if our men should have luck to take richmond i think the War would close soon after words Whether it closes or not i am coming home just as soon as my time it out if uncle Sam give us our furlow time i will be at home some time in June if not i will be their in September if i have the luck to get out safe mother tell the old man to put in a good crop of corn and i will be their to help him gather it tell uncle nathan graves i have not forgoton him tell him i would like to here how he is geting a long also give my love to him mother i have received your minature at last Witch you sent by gery paddock i think it favers you very mutch tell nancy mays i have not herd from Will for some time i saw colonel Wharton at nashville a few days a go. he said the Buoys were all well and was campt near chattanooga tenn mother tell me haydon i think he is two work brickel slce i Would here oftener from him give all mr haydons my love and respets and keep a dieu family portion for your self give aunt lucy ana family my love and respets I now must close for the preasant this So no more i remain your son un till Death [signed] Stith Stumpff [addressed] To mary Stumpff Direct your next letter to chattanooga Tennesee in care of lieutenant Keen ??? lieutenant keen commands our company at preasant our old officers are plaid out So fare the well for a while." Ancestry dot com record found for Stith Stumpff, age 18, birth date about 1844, enlistment date into the Union Army October 4, 1862. Stith Stumpff enlisted at Lebanon, Kentucky as a Private in the Fifth Kentucky Cavalry (other U.S. archive records indicate the Kentucky Fourth through Sixth Cavalry). The Fifth Kentucky Cavalry fought in the Atlanta Campaign summer of 1864.