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Surname: Thorn, Kinsey
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Civil War Letter
submitted by Rober M. Sharp.
One-hundred and thirty-one years ago, a Union soldier wrote the accompanying
letter to his sister in Indiana. The soldier was Martin V. B. Thorn who
was a private in Company B of the 57th Indiana Infantry. This was his last
letter home before dying of yellow fever in a New Orleans hospital on July
7th, 1865. The sister was my great-great grandmother
Martha Ann Alice (Thorn) Kinsey.
Near Nashville Tennessee
Head Quarters 2nd Brig
May The 7th/65
Dear Sister,
I take my seat
this evn'g for the Purpose of
answering your kind letter
witch a received this Evening.
your highly esteamed note found
me enjoying good health and
I was truly glad to here your
health was good .
We are alaying here in camp and
a having a gay old time. Sericily
I think by the fourth of
July I will be at home and
then wont I have a gay time
after my soldering is over. I
guss I will . Oh, I long for
the time to come when I
can put on citizen Clothes
again. I am not geting a
shamed of the true Blue
yet, but i would like to get
a suit of citizen dry goods
on again. I no I would feel
awful querre. Well it is geting
so Dark I will have to quit
and go in my pup tent
and light a candle.
Well I have a Candle Lighted
and I think I can do mutch better
I got a letter from Dave
dated the 1st of this Month
he is at Pulaski he is well and
harty. I wish to god they would
catch Daniel Clark and hang
him so high that he willnever get down alive I would like
to tie the knot that shuts his
Wind off. When us veterns
Soldiers get home the feather
Bed Pimps will have to Walk
prety strait for if they dont
it will stay stoped for it is a
Wicked thing to shoot men down
the Way we have been a doing it.
Dave said that he saw Where we planted the Rebels at franklin
I think if he had a been in that
fight he would a thought it was
-ent very funey. Dave has saw some fighting but not very mutch.
I think I have saw my share
in this Cruel War. my how
I am Wiling to quit if the Rebles
is.
Well Alice you may look
for me home by the fourth of
July my how I have Wrote
enough for this time.
Wright soon and let me no if you can read
all of this Letter.
Dreck to Head Quarters 2nd Brig 2nd Div 4thA.C.
Nashville Tenn
so good by Dear sister
from your True Brother