Raycide Mosher to Mosher family, 1864-02-15 Item Info
Dear Sister and Brother
I take my pen in hand to informe you that I am not very well at presant but hope that thes fue linds will find you all well and little Maud. I have ben sick fore a bout a week or more but not so sick be what I could eat and get a Round. It is Raney to day and wet so that I am blidge to keep in my tent so I thought that I would write a fue linds.
My Compney A. and G. H. and F. are a bout Forty nine miles north west of Nashville Rite in the woods and thare is a Redgment of negroes here and Regment Cavelery Near we are a geting out ties now for the Railrode and the negroes thay are a grading. The wether is warm and the birds sing and it looks like spring but it is Cold nights but it has not froze much very little Sume night. I have not seen a flack of Snow yet. Kentuckey and tennessee are very hiley and Mountanious and fool of Rocks in the valeys thare is plow land but it is not very good it is most of it low and wet. I had drother have a farme in Michigan then to have the whole of tennessee. we have plenty to eat here flower to make biscuit and we have pork benes Rice Coffee Suger tea we haft Cook our one grub one man Cooks for twenty or twenty five Men. Ambroes I think you are as bout as well of whare you are as eney whare fore I think if I was at home I wood be the best of but I am here and I am going to stay Root hog or die.
I have got over my Cof but I have ben Sick with a diere but I am geting over it now. Most of the Men here to the South think that the war wont last more then one year. Some of the Solders goes out in the Contery with temes a forgering thay fetch in Corne hay hogs turkes hens geese every thing thay Can get go into Smoke houses and get hams and take every thing Can get a hold of that is good to eat, and fetch it in and Cook them and have a good time. I Cant think of eney thing more to write gest now you must excuse me this time. to you my Friends. Write Soon as you Can
Raycide Mosher
Co. A. 1st Regt. En.gr. & Mech
Nashville Tennessee
Ambrose Austin Austin
- Title:
- Raycide Mosher to Mosher family, 1864-02-15
- Creator:
- Mosher, Raycide
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1864-02-15
- Description:
- Letter from Raycide Mosher to his family; includes description of the acvities of Raycide's regiment, the landscape of Tennessee, and the food available in his camp near Nashville.
- Subjects:
- soldiers civil wars military camps
- Location:
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Latitude:
- 36.1640177
- Longitude:
- -86.78380903
- Recipient:
- Mosher family
- Recipient Location:
- Albion, Michigan
- Source:
- MG 118, Raycide Mosher Civil War Letters, Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho Library
- Source Identifier:
- mg118_folder3_02-15-1864
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Preferred Citation:
- "Raycide Mosher to Mosher family, 1864-02-15", Raycide Mosher Civil War Letters, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/mosher/items/mosher012.html
- Rights:
- Material has likely passed into public domain. Digital reproductions are made available by University of Idaho Library for educational purposes, and future use should acknowledge this repository. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu. The University of Idaho Library is not liable for any violations of the law by users
- Standardized Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/