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Letters of Francis William Kimble
14th Iowa Infantry, Company 'B'
Presented by the Iowa Civil War Site
Letter number nineteen
Columbia, Ky. August the 23, 1863
To Eliza
As I am going to send this novel I thought I would write a few lines as it is
the Sabbath and I have nothing else to do. Eliza this is a very nice morning
with the exception of the heat and that is not so disgusting as it was a few
days since. I hope we will have cooler weather here after. I hope so, for it
is very unhealthy here at present. Co. B only had 16 men to patronize the
sick call but I am glad to say that we haven't so many this morning. Liza I
have been down to town at guard mount. Yesterday morning Gen Cabath? had a
minature of the guards and Bandy and several officers. He said he must have
the likeness of the 4th Iowa band to take with him as he is going away for a
few days. I hear some talk that we will go to Va., but we know not how true
it is. But if we do go East I believe the boys is all satisfied to go and I
think it more than wishful that we will not go. Eliza today is a very
lonesome day. There isn't much of anything going on in camp today. Most of
the boys is writing home or lying in their tents sleeping or reading novels.
Eliza it would be a nice site for you to see us in camp for it would be a
grand sight to any one that never seen an army in the field. Tell Dad I want
to know who is going to be our first govenor of the state of Iowa. I want to
know what Brils? family is doing. Well Dad I have got acquainted with Jane
___'s? man. There was a regt of negroes that went down the river this
morning. If I had been home when you went home with E.R.C.(Coombs) I would of
saved you the trouble of going. Liza I am expecting news from Mo Giol? this
morning. I want to know if James learning to drum. I was little afraid that
money wouldn't go safe, but I see it has. You wanted to know how I got my
washing done. Sometimes I do it myself and sometimes I get it done. Tell me
what Molly Stapleton had to say. Write all the news. My best wishes to the
family. Your brother to his sister. Good Day.
Dottie [email protected]
Transcribed and submitted by great great niece
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