Tuesday, January 3, 2012

1862 January 2 Centreville

My dear Little Nannie:
Finding myself all alone
and feeling so well by a big log fire this
beautiful morning after having bathed and
clad myself in “clean duds” from head to
foot I have determined to write and say that
I have nothing at all to say -
Capt Latham is expected here this
evening and then Clark says that the Surgeons
will allow him to go home again –
Unfounded rumors are in circulation here
to the effect that the Yankees will attack Evans-
-port to day and that an advance will be
made on this place on to-morrow or next
day – If that were true I suppose that our
troops would be more concentrated than they
now are, the line of encampment being very
quiet and fully eight miles long –
Woodie Latham’s & Maurice Langhorne’s
wife I understand are pleasantly situated in a
room each at McLane’s ford of Bull Run about

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two miles from here on one of the roads lead-
-ing to Manassas –
Little Brown is very much annoyed
by this morning’s newspaper announcement that
the Yankees have occupied Ship Island in the
gulf & affected a landing on shore at Beloxi the
place of his father’s residence in Mississippi – He
says he means to fight at home next year –
I expected at first not much aid at the
hands of England & now I am more inclined to
the opinion that she will not interfere in our be-
-half – I think we will have a “hard road to
traval” next year & that our Army will have
to be largely increased – A great many of those
now in the field will re-enlist for the war
but nearly all will elect the Artillery service –
Genl Johnston thinks we now have enough
artillery in the field though new companies are
being drilled & provided with guns at Richmond –
Give my best love to all at home – Tell
me all about “The Cap’n” in your next and be-
-lieve as ever very fondly & devotedly
Your own
Choctaw

William Anderson, Captain Co. J, 4th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers [Palmetto Sharpshooters]

[transcribed by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 10366

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