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FROM: John C. Harrison
LOCATION: 61st Alabama, Colonel Battles
Brigade Orange County, Richmond Virginia
TO: Wife and Family
LOCATION: Evergreen
DATE: March 30, 1861
I received your letter of the 18 (this) instant and was glad to hear from you and to hear that you was well and hearty. These lines leave me well except cold. I was out on picket last week in the snow and sleet and (have) taken a good deal of cold and I don't feel very well. We have the coldest weather here that you ever saw and there is a good deal of sickness in our regiment and there has been several deaths since we got here. I got a letter from your Uncle Ben this morning and his family was all well and he said that he expects that he should have to go in the army the last of this month for they had their names enrolled and was to meet in a few days to elect their officers. I got a letter from Martha day before yesterday and the children was all well then. I have not heard from Harden and Isabelle in a good while. I have nothing to write to you at present that would interest you.
Times is very hard here and our rations are very short. We get enough of meal and flour and a quarter of a pound of bacon to the man per day and some rice and about enough of sugar and coffee to make a mess once a day. We do very well only when we are on a march and then our meat ain't enough. We can see the Yankees when we are on picket and there are talk of our having to (have) some of the hardest fighting here this spring that has ever been done in northern Virginia but I can't see how it will end. But I am in hopes that this war will soon come to a close and this war will come to a close (repeated). Write to me as often as you can and let me know how you are gettin' on and I will do the same.
Direct your letters Richmond Virginia, 61st Alabama Colonel Battles Brigade and they will come to me.
Yours Truly Until Death
John C. Harrison
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