The Civil War Letters of J. W. Rabb

Dear Sister Lissy,

Do not think hard of me for not riting a hole letter to you. I can't get envelope & paper. Your letter was very interesting. Rite to me offe. I will send a letter home when ever I can. Rite me at this place, and I recon I will get it, though I expect we will start towards Nashville in a few dayes.

Dear Sister Bet,

You wrote me such a good long letter. I liked it so much. The boys all thought it was from my jularky, and one little fellow devels me so much about, "Fly home to thy native home, gentle dove." He sayed that I looked more like a paterage. I would write to my goolarky, but I han't got one good way to rite and nothing good to write on. You must tell her something good for me that I tole you to tell her. Bet, my horse Nipper is so fine and fat and walks soft and runns so fast.  

[J. W. Rabb]

Rabb, J. W., "We are Stern and Resolved: The Civil War Letters of John Wesley Rabb", ed. by Thomas W. Cutrer, The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 1987, pp. 185-226.

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