Dugal W. Ross – 1 June 1865

This letter was written by Mr. Ross to his wife, who lived in Henderson Co., TN. Dugal W. Ross served during the Civil War as a private in the Union Army, Company K, 7th Cavalry, Regiment of West Tennessee. He was mustered in on 27 Jun 1863 in Grand Junction, Henderson Co., TN and discharged as unfit for duty on 11 Jul 1864. On 7 March 1864 Dugal was in the USA General Hospital in Paducah, KY and on 20 June 1864 he was transferred to USA Hospital
at Jefferson Barracks, MO with chronic pneumonia.

Daniel R. Lanter, dlanter@camalott.com


Todd Barracks, Columbus, Ohio
June 1st. A.D. 1865

Affectionate wife and children:
	I am this day favored with an opportunity of writing 
to you once more to inform you that I am not well, though 
I am as well as I have been for a long time. I am up and 
about but don't do any duty nor haven't done any in a good 
while. I hope that these few lines may come safely to your 
hands and find you and family all well. I have not heard 
from you in twelve months. I have seen a heap of trouble 
about you all and particular about Moses and John for fear 
the Rebels had conscripted hem but I hope to reach home 
before long and to find you all these and well with something 
to eat and wear.
	Penny, I have seen more trouble for the last two years 
than I every saw in my life before. I have been to St. Louis, 
Mo., Illinois, Ohio, Maryland., Pennsylvania, New Jersey, 
round Lake Erie, New York, Connecticut, New Haven Harbor and 
at Washington and Harpers' Ferry, Indiana and a number of 
cities too tedious to mention. But I hope the time is not far 
distant when I will get out of this and be permitted to come home.
	Penny, I want you to keep up your courage and hope for 
the beter and not for the worst. So try to be brave and pass 
off the time the best you can for I think the time will not be 
long before time to come when I can set at my own table with my 
dear wife and children around it once more. I feel like it would 
be more satisfaction to me to be permitted to sit under my own 
roof with my wife and little children around me than anything 
on earth. So Penny, you and the children do the best you can and 
try to make something to eat. I am sorry I can't send you the 
money but it is just as it is and I can't help it, so keep your 
spirit up and bear your troubles with all the patience you can.  
If you get this letter I want you to write soon and direct your 
letter to Todd Barracks, Columbus, Ohio, Co. F., 22nd Regiment, V. R. C.
	So I will close by saying be of good faith. I remain your 
ever loving husband and father until death, so farewell to you all.

	From Duggle W. Ross to Penelope A. Ross.

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