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To friends and relations, February 25, 1862, page 1

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  • Feb. the 25th, 1862 Hallifax County, Weldon, NC Dear friends and relations I seat myself this morning to give you a description of my present situation. I am in good health at this time and I hope my lines will come to hand and find you all in good health. I can inform you that we have had rather a hard time since I wrote my last letter. My last letter was wrote the day after we left Goldsboro, in that I stated to you that we was going down the Roanoke River on a steamboat. But being disappointed in getting a boat on the 13th of this month we were ordered to take up the line of march down the river. The evening we left Hallifax Court House was fair and nice. We marched about eight miles that evening and took up camp. Next morning was cloudy and cold, and we had not marched far before it commenced raining. It rained on four days in succession. During them four days we passed through the towns of Clarksville, Hamilton, and Williamston, all close on the river, and on the 17th of this month we reached Jamesville, a little town on the Roanoke River just twenty miles from the ocean where we took camp with the expectation of staying there some time and commenced preparing to meet the Yankies. We selected a place on the river where we intended to fire on the Yankies as they passed up in their boats. About two miles from that place on a large creek we commenced fortifying, thinking that we could draw the Yankies out of their boats and then fall back to our fortifications and there give them a warm time.
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