Camp near Richmond
July 23d 1862
Dear Bill
I recd a letter from you about
a month ago since then I have not heard from
or of you except through [West?] & Mr Morgan
--whom I met about a week ago in Richmond
--I suppose you have written. I have written
-you, in the meantime three or four letters
you recd no doubt the money sent from father
with that I sent, Do you ever hear from
home, the way has been so inobstructed to
Alexa that I imagine you must have
recd some letters. if so,please send them
to me, or tlet me know their contents.--We
are leading a very quiet, dull life here, no
excitement--the "boys" are now fighting
their "battles [?] again". I am reserving
my "yarns" untill I can get home, when I
will be able to spin some in opposition
to Fathers of the White House--I often
wonder how they are getting on at home
this is the time of the year when father & I used
to sit on the front steps & talk politics, Now
I sit out on the grass in front f my tent
& smoke & talk about the war. the fights
the chances of getting to Georgia (our regt
is so reduced that we have petitioned to be
sent there to recruit) &c--I wish the Yanks
would come on & let us have a speedy termi-
nation to this war, this summer and
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autumn, I think must close it, unless the
enemy are encouraged to continue it by un-
looked for successes, I fully expect, if alive
to be in Alexa next spring--Write me soon
Give my love to Lizzie, Jule & the children
--May I suppose from what [West?] told me, has
returned to Ashland. Remember me to Mr A
--Can you buy me any gray or blue confederate
cloth in Lynchburg cheaper than it is in R-
Do you want any money. if you do I can
send you some in about a week, if you do
not--does Lizzie? Write soon
Very affectionately
Your brother
W B Gregory
William B. Gregory, surgeon, 2nd Georgia
MSS 4777
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