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FROM: Benjamin Harrison
LOCATION: Warren County, Ga.
TO: John C. Harrison
LOCATION: Evergreen, Al.
DATE: October 22, 1861
Dear Brother,
I take my pen in hand this evening to drop you a few lines which leaves all in common health and hoping that this may find you and yours enjoying the same blessings. I received (your letter the) day after it was wrote and was glad (to hear) from you and that you was well. I was out of paper when I got yours or I would have wrote sooner. The war has torn up matters so (that) we can't get everything we want and if it should continue 4 or 5 years I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't have to do on mighty little. Dr. J.S. Jones' son James
and Damascus Cody got killed in the Pensacola fight. As able-bodied young men as Warren could produce. Bell (Bill?) Thompson's son George died of pneumonia at Pensacola some 5 weeks ago. John Mc Glomery lost his wife some 4 or 5 weeks ago with consumption. Adam Smith is in very bad health. He has something like the dropsy. The rest of my neighbors and acquaintances are all well as far as I know
of at present. Priss and Will and their boys was up last Sunday all well and hardy. We have had a very dry summer. I don't think I shall make much more than half as much corn and cotton as I did last year. I want you to write to (me) as soon as you get this and let me know how you all are a'coming on and when you heard from Ben and how he likes the soldiers life. When you write to Benjamin, tell him to me and let me know how he fares and how he likes the army service. Tell him whenever he gets at liberty to go home, to get off at Thomson and any of them can tell him where I live. I want to see him very much. It has been a source of grief to me ever since he passed and I did not get to see him. Write soon.
Yours Until Death
Benj. Harrison
John C. Harrison
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