Raycide Mosher to Clarissa Mosher, 1864-05-21 Item Info
Tiney Crick Alabama
May the .21th. 1864
Dear Sister.
I Reseved your kind letter to day & was glad to here that you are all well & fore my part I am well & have done a weeks work I got your letter to day noon as I Came in to dinner & So I thought I would write a fue lines this evening I wrote wone the 19. & put in it a Couple of Rings fore you Clarisa I dont now wether they will fit you or not. they are made out of Rather poor Shells they better wons when we get to whare they are. I hope you will get my letters be fore Mc. Starts back So you Can Send me the Medison I want for I think if Can have Some Med= to take for my blud & to work on the liver that I will tuf a buck & Dr. Rowbacks blud purefier & blud pills are good things I can have I think barnes folks Recemend it as a good Medison. & the Sholder braces if you Cant find them in the drugstores in Albion you will haft to let them go & if I get my pay this next week Send it home bey express i think but they may not pay till the first of June. but Some Say they will pay next week a teusday. but Father you most get along the best you Can & help me a little if you if you can & as Soon as I am pade I will help you. it is very worm & nice wether here now we have got our Stock ade bout done. we heve not a tacktd yet by Rebs but day befor yesterday they herd that they was Rebs Coming a Stockade that our other Squad was a bilding about a quorter of a mile of So hed orders to quit work & See to our guns but in a fue minites we found out it was Some of our one Men Coming down the Rode on horse back that after noon the Cars did not Come along & we went to bed with our guns be Side of us but the next morning the Cars Come & they hed ben a bridge burnt to bild that hed got out of Repare. Mother you make little bag & Send Me medison if you can & put in like bsides it will Come good & cant have no better Chance. So good by Rite as Soon as you Can
Raycide Mosher Co. A. 1st
Rig= Mich
Eng= & Mech
To Harry Mosher
Albion Calhoun Co.
Mich
- Title:
- Raycide Mosher to Clarissa Mosher, 1864-05-21
- Creator:
- Mosher, Raycide
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1864-05-21
- Description:
- Letter from Raycide Mosher to his sister, Clarissa Mosher; includes description of the shell rings Raycide made for her, the medicines he wanted sent to him, and the activities of his unit.
- Subjects:
- soldiers civil wars illness
- Location:
- Piney Creek, Alabama
- Latitude:
- 34.60328788
- Longitude:
- -86.87226394
- Recipient:
- Mosher, Clarissa
- Recipient Location:
- Albion, Michigan
- Source:
- MG 118, Raycide Mosher Civil War Letters, Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho Library
- Source Identifier:
- mg118_folder14_05-21-1864
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Preferred Citation:
- "Raycide Mosher to Clarissa Mosher, 1864-05-21", Raycide Mosher Civil War Letters, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/mosher/items/mosher085.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/