1861 July 13 Camp Tabor Fairfax Co Va

My Dear Creek

Your very welcome letter of the 5th inst
came to hand yesterday I am very happy to hear
that you are all well, there seems to be a great want
of mail facilities in this part of the country. I have
wrote you three times a week since I left Richmond,
and you have not got any of them, I also wrote to your
Pa, and by Carolines letter yesterday he has not yet
received it. I sent you one by Lieut Broom which
you will get in due time. I send you this by Samuel
Maxwell from Pendleton, I send you enclosed,
$120, which I have not got the least bit of use
for here, and it may be of use to you at home, I have still
forty left, and our pay day will be next week again
when I will get $130 more, so you need not have any
scruples about using it on my account. I am very
sorry to hear that you are so poorly supplied from the
mill, their must be a screw loose somewhere, and if
Jink[?] is still with you, tell him if things are not
working to his notion to make any dispositions that
him and your Father may deem proper, it will be
satisfactory to me. The mill ought to be doing a good

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a good business now, and furnish you with plenty.
Pay Jink the money which I borrowed from him
out of this, and make whatever disposition you think
proper of the balance

You will see by this that we have again changed our
Quarters, we are now about half way between Manass
Junction and Alexandria and eight miles from
Fairfax Court House, we will not stay long here as
we are acting as a kind of advance Guard, for the army
and should we be attacked by the enemy, will fall back
on Beauregard at Fairfax C.H. as Mr Maxwell is
hurrying me up I must close. I will send you a
long letter by Craford Keys in a few days

My love to all, but particularly to Dear little Mag
and yourself

Ever your affectionate Husband
William Anderson



William Anderson, 4th Regiment South Carolina Volunteers [Palmetto Sharpshooters]

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