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THE GREAT REBELLION\u00a0<\/span>OF 1861<\/p>\n To Columbus B. Jones and\u00a0?? Jones at home Morgan County,\u00a0East Tennessee<\/p>\n —————<\/p>\n Dear Friend\u00a0 i seat my self to let you Know that i am well at\u00a0 present hoping\u00a0 when these few lines come to hand that it will find you enjoying the same state of health i would like to see you and talk over our old running tails and the ___ house ____ i want you to write to me as soon as you get this letter and let me know the times is in there and what my folks is and what they are doing tell Nancy ann that i am well and wants to see them all mity bad\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n —————–<\/p>\n ——————<\/p>\n From a Collection of Letters in the Morgan County Genealogical & Historical Files in the Morgan County Archive Building.\u00a0Donated by Lee Cross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE GREAT REBELLION\u00a0OF 1861 To Columbus B. Jones and\u00a0?? Jones at home Morgan County,\u00a0East Tennessee ————— Camp Cumberland Gap (??)\u00a0\u00a0July the 10th, 1862 Dear Friend\u00a0 i seat my self to let you Know that i am well at\u00a0 present hoping\u00a0 when these few lines come to hand that it will find you enjoying the same… Continue reading Civil War Documents<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-veterans","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3889,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/3889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/cwletter1.jpg\")
Camp Cumberland Gap (??)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0July the 10th, 1862<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/cwletter3.jpg\")
times is very prosperous\u00a0 hear the boys is all well and hearty and in fine sperits thinking that they will get to go to Knoxville shortly which i think that they will myself\u00a0 when they get to Knoxville we will all come home and stay a while Nancy you must ____\u00a0 lying out or it wont be healthy for you<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0wright to me as soon as you get this letter<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0i must quit i am on guard to day So you must wright to me as soon as you get this<\/span>
\nTo Miss Nancy Jones at home<\/span><\/p>\n