The Civil War Letters of J. W. Rabb

Grayhamville, S. C., Jan 11th 1865

Mrs. Mary Rabb

Dear Ma Ma,
I reseived two letters the other day, one from Virge & one from Lissy & Mr. Reese, all dated in Nov. 1864. I was very glad to here from them & you. I am at this time in tolerable good health. I have no news of importance to rite you. You have herde of all of the movements of the Yankeys & our forces over here. I think that we rather got the worst of it, & I am not in the best of sperets. We lost Atlanta & Savanah because the troops on he west side of the Miss. river refused to come over here & help ous. If they had come over here, our line would have been on the Comberland River, & Savanah & Atlanta would never have been taken. But it is hard to tell now where our line is now. It is true that Gen. Hood is in middle Tenn. with one. But Gen. Shermond has split through Georga and gone to the cost. Things look rather dark over here at this time. Our Brigade is very comfortably quartered at this time in some houses that the home gards built some time ago, but there is no telling how long we may stay here. I have plenty of good warm cloths. I captured a right new over coat & pants from a Yanky some time ago. I also have pleanty of Confed mony & about fourty in gold. I am getting along very well. We have pleanty to eat by prowling about & killing a hog now & then. Croft is well but wants to see home very bad, as well as my selfe. We have not had any fight right lately. We have lost some six or eyht out of our reg. in the last two months. Give my love to Lissy & Mr. Reese. Also remember me to the Col. & Mrs. Moore. Tell the Col. that I can't rite to him now, as the barier of this letter will start soon. Give my res to all of my friends.

In Haste your sone,
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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