Seeking any info on Mary Rose JOHNSON, b. Hamilton Co. IL 13 Apr 1826 and d. in Hamilton Co. IL 25 Mar 1868. She was m. to James PAGE on 7 Nov 1844 in Hamilton Co. IL. After her death, her family moved to Pulaski Co. MO. They had 10 children. Believe she connects to my line of JOHNSON. Would like any info on parents/siblings. Very interested in her father's name. Any help appreciated. Will exc info. Thank you, Judy in TX

Morganza La. July the 28th/64 Lizzie Dear Companion today is fine & cool & nice & pleasent & realy evry thing looks charming I am well & harty except a pain in the head which is casd I think by late riding of nights all is quiet here with exception of some rumors of a atack here by rebels which I think groundless night befour last at midnight I was awakend & told to be redy immeaditly to start I sprang from my bunk sadeld my horse put on my briches & shoes & spurs got my catreg box lookt at my revolver to sea if it was all rite got my gun & sprang in the sadel & was off with 49 others I new we was goin down the river for the telegraph wier had bin cut & of corse it had to be fixt so the wagon with some wier & other litle fixings in it having come we started down the river we traveld til day light which found us at the first plase which had wier cut 12 milds away we fixt it & went on sun up found us at waterlou thare it was torn down I got some milk from a lady who inquierd very partikular of me if we would burn down the houses of the pepal living along thare I told her know but I expected that they would pay for it is some way which was soon proven by a lot of soldiers in the garden taking watermellons cucumbers & so she rared around & wanted me to make them quit I told her to be quiet that a few vegatables would not hurt a soldier she said that them green watermellons would mak them sick we then went on & found no more dameg don til we got to Port Hudson thare the Lieutenant & me crost the river in a sciff & got som bread & meat & oats for our selves & horses & if I had bin fixt up with a darker shirt I would have had my photograph taken but did not & so we came back to camp we got here at 12 P last night then som of the boys told me the mail had come so I after unsadling my horse & feeding him went in to my tent lit a candle & find 3 letters laying on the box that suplide the plase of a table one from Eliza Carey one from J B Ashby & one from you & so as you lay the patern of writing short letter I must aqueess & so by subscribing my self your true frend & lover I acnoleg to be yours M A Hooker Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

Morganza, Louisiana July the 25th/64 My Dearest beter half this pleasent day finds me well & harty & it is a pleasent thought to me to think that this may find you well as also our offspring to day is not so warm as on previous ocasions alltho summer is upon us oh glorious summer this is the month of heat & sunshine of clear fervid skies dusty roads & shrinking streams in which a cool gale is the most welcome of all visitors & evry drop of rain is worth its weight in gold of the cool gale we have after the sunsets almost always a refreshing visitation here, here in the the suny south the citisens think that the showers are to unfrequent but I think that we have a bountiful suply & I expect I am rite as regards soldiers I wil sho you our camp below [a map drawn of the confluence of the Red River and False River with the positions of the rebel and 87th camps marked] I was on a scout the other day out at Atchafalaya & we rode rite up to the camp & stopt & lookt at them some time rite in 200 yards of the huts & they never took the hint til we turnd off to leave & then then took on terbly sheling us & shouting at us but we laught at them & dismounted & some of the boys took the horses to the rear & we took shelter behind the levey & in some diches & thare we stade nearly all day with just the bayou between us some times we would shoot & then stop & talk one of them a felow close to me wanted to swap horses with me I told him that I would not have his I asked him if the rebels was thick over thare & he said yes I told him to hold up his head from behind the levey on the other side so I could shoot him He said no but stuck up his hat I told him he was a cowerd & then he jumpt out in full vew & severl guns went off at him I have just come in off picket this morning & you must excuse me if I do not rite much for I stade 2 days & nights on picket & I feal drowsey the last letter I received from you was in Marthas & now I must close thare is some talk of us being atacked here but I think it is doubtful my self If they do I think that they will get whipt for we are fortafide besids we are tolerble strong & now I close saying remember me McAllister A Hooker to Elizabeth Jane Hooker Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

Morganza Louisiana Tuesday Morning July the 19th/64 My Dear Elizabeth after an abstinance from writing for 4 or 5 days I thought that I would write you a leter I am looking any moment for a mail but may be disapointed some days yet I am tolerble well to day but I feal a litle bad I think it was riding so hard yesterday & day befour in the hot sun sometimes we would ride 4 or 5 milds as hard as the horses would carey us we liked to have got Captain Rattlett; he is the Commander of a company of Confederates this side of achafelaya bayou. we caught up with him & 5 of his men & dasht on him & run him 4 milds helter scelter & one of our men run up beside of him & commenst bateling him with the sabre & the Captain turnd & shot him dead & got away He belonged to the 1st La. Cavel I did not get to close my self for I sorter helt back on the bit instead of spuring mot with standing I got up close anough to snap my pistol all around & it would not go off as I had lay out a night or 2 befour that in a hard rain & it had hurt my pistol or revolver more than my self after 2 days scout we returnd to camp & this morning I feal stupid riding hard along a dusty hot road is very heavy on a man but if theas scouts interest you it does not me I have a litle tent now to my self the tent it self is like 2 table cloths sewed to gether & strecht abut this way [small drawing of a tent labeled with numbers] figer 2 tent 3 bunk 4 stove drove up as hie as my head in this little house I have not got much furniture let me sea I can tel you the bunk which is simply made of bords litle shortones lade on 2 poles 6 feet long then 2 nails drove in post figur 4 & on one hangs my towel & on the other a candle stick with a half candel in it & when I come in of a night I light it to sea how to straten up my bead on the other post just like no 4 at the other end of the tent is 2 nails & on them hangs my blouse & haversack & canteen at figur 5 is a litle writing table on it is a peas of an oil cloth & on that lays my day book containing all the scouts & batels of 64 & my botel of ink & some loose pens whare I am now writing at figer 8 is an other box set up & on it is seting a segar box with something in it not segars tho but some paper Colars your likness some black flax thread & some whit thread & paper & paper of neadles we are campt on the bank of the river my tent is about 30 steps from the ege Captain Anderson is gon out on a scout with 7 of Co A & some from other Copys The boys in the mess is all tolerble well it is clear to day & pleasent the ave[?] is blowing nicly & is not so warm to day as on former ocasions I sent you 40 dollars the other day it is nice money & is drawing 5 percent interest from last march thare four making it beter than gold I wish the mail would come in shurley the rebels has stopt up the river or somthing else I get tho that we will get a mail to day some time tel George that my horse is as fat & slick as a mole & can run like a deer & stop like any other horse fer I stopt him yesterday morning at a house & got a prity litle girl to fill my canteen full of sweet milk & you may know he rids easey for I eat as much milk as I could hold & then I rode on fast to ketch up & it ded not slop out & he poses two I like to for get to tel you you must rit soon & often I will pay postage on this fer it is worth paying for yours truly honey write me a sweet letter good & lovly M A Hooker Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

Military Prison Louisville Ky Dear Sister July 11th 1864 I seat myself this morning to inform you that I am well & harty at presant & I do hope this may find you & the children well we drew our money last Saturday the 9th & I was on guard yesterday or I should have writen sooner you see here is $10 enclosed which I send to you you know what it is for this is all I have to spare now but I hope soon to be able to do something more for Martha as soon as I get the money & can spare it you may be shure I will do my part & help her along as I can Mack wrote to me that he was with Martha & that she was to start to his house imediatly he told me to direct my letters to her that is to McLeansboro so I wrote her a letter & directed it to McLeansboro but I have not got an answer from it I cannot write to her for I dont know whether she has started or not if you will look in the office you will find a letter their directed to Mrs Martha A Brown, thats her I expect we will soon be mounted & go down in the Green River country to fight gurillas they are thick in our state & will soon ruin it if they are not stoped I have no news to write you you must write to me direct to Military Prison Louisville Ky 26th Ky A.V.I. Our duty here is prity heavy as we have to guard rebel prisoners I have not got a letter from my wife for sevral weeks she is down in Webster & the gurillas have got the mail stopt if Martha has got to your house tell her to write to me imediately you know as well what to do with this money as I can tell you I supose it is for your own use in the place of that which Mack gave to Martha I still remain your brother P. L. Hooker I have got the trembles & cant hardly write atall to Elizabeth Hooker _______________________________ Presley was McAllister's brother and was an officer candidate in command of african american troops at the military prison in Louisville, KY. They were corresponding regarding finances for the care of their sister Martha Brown. Martha would marry George Crabtree before the war is over. Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

Morganza Loisianna July the 1st/64 My Dear Elizabeth I seat my self this hot morning to write you a letter not that I have not don so for so long but that thare is some prospects of us leaving & I wont not have time to write you for some time I am well & harty & my weight is 146 pounds I hope that this may find you & the children in good helth Our Company has gon out on picket to day I started & they had one to many & I come back & of corse I will miss one picket I heard this morning that we was going to leave to whare I can not tel thare is grate speculations in regard to whare we are going some say to Brashear City some say to N. orleans some to Natchez some to Litle rock Ark. & some say to the Army of the Cumberlain My opinion is that we wil go to Ark. or Tenn. one or the other we musterd for pay yesterday & now we have 4 months pay due us when we wil get it I am unable to tel mabe soon & mabe not I recon you will get plenty of letters now for I have written 4 or 5 inside of 7 days the whether is very hot here now & the flys is so bad that I cant hardly write the pepal down here say that this is the hotest month in the year June I mean let me know whether you are taking the dollar time or not you said that you had signed for it some time back I got a letter from Posey the other day hes well & said that old onkle Peter Ashby was very sick & Vail Smith was dead & Bill Halice was scouring the green river contry stealing horses & other property I wish he had his head fast between that forked sycamore tree at the mouth of deer creek & had to stay thare til I got thare to take it out ( I supose he has a band of theaves with him = & he is the leader - give my respects to all & save my love for your self tel Georg that I have got my horse fat & he will kick up & play with me he is allways glad to sea me & loves to get his oats & corn No 1 is abel to eat there alowance & we have another new member Valentine Rathbone & now I will close by saying that I would write a hole sheet but the postage costs to much & in theas hard times evry litle helps let me no how the grass looks & you must make arrangements to sow some wheat this fall I want you to get the sead & I want James to plow it in get onkle Jo to help him some I will close I remain your husband Mack Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

----- Original Message ----- From: Hamilton Co To: ILHAMILT-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 6:00 PM Subject: Mt. Nebo I have Mt. Nebo cemetery up with photos attatched. Look for Webbs Chapel to be up next, maybe tomorrow. Thanks for all the nice words!! I hope everyone enjoys. -Misty- http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhamcem/

Morganza, Louisiana Tuesday June the 28 A.D. 1864 My Dearest Elizabeth I seat my self to drop you a few lines tho it has not been long since I sent you a letter yet I must = write you one on perticular business = Peter Leak was teling me last night that the coperheads; as theas men that stays at home (for they) are all alike as regards geting a womens mony don all in there power to get the money from the women or wives of soldiers & to accomplish this they would tel them all sorts of tails such as (the green backs will not for any acount after the war) or this thing is cheap & you can not do beter in Eavensvill) or I would not tel you theas things if you was not a soldiers wife) or here take this dont tel any person I would not let you have it but you are a soldier wife = & just take it along I can live some how ) & at the same time mabe they fell 5 cts or 10 cts as 5 or 10 dollars worth & try to make you think that they are doing grate things for you now all this talk is stuf & no Lady should notice such trash as this & I do not think that you do but I am talking about what is sirtain facts of the mater let me ask a few questions and answer them is Green Backs good ( Just as good as Gold do you like it ( the best of all money I do = do you think it will be good after the war ( yes it will ge good as long as thare is any of it) do you think that the union Army will be successfull =) ( yes I think that the union must shall & will prevale at all hazerds & the U.S. Money will not only be good at the end of the war but it will be beter than gold or silver & no persons but doubtful pepal or southern simpathizers will think otherwize if a man is doubtful of his contrys mony he is doubtful of his contry & I must say in regard to this mater that if my contry goes down I go down with it & if it stands thare is no danger & if I had 7 millions of dollars of Goverment Bonds & had them in a Valt that would not be got open til 5 years hence I could sleep soundly as ever = for I am for my contry & if my contry goes down I go down two for I am willing to share the same fate of my contry ( oh you of litle fathe ) oh I hope Lizzie that you are as good a union man as I am & then I am sirtain that you would love your contry & its money the Rebels = here in the south west part of Louisiana used altogether the green backs the citizens of Louisiana wil not have any other sort the very man that are fighting for southern rits will not have southern money = it is good in Texas tho but the green backs is beter eaven thare = now I am teling you this for your owen good & to rouse you up a litle in regard to your contry go not fall in to the sinn of Coperheadism ( or to doubt your contry money = is all the same ) oh that the time would be hastly in coming that all trators would cease to do eavel & learn to go good = & now Lizzie I do not know that you do ) but let me tel you to never doubt you contrys money no never = value it as the hard earnings of a soldier for away from home & if thare=is=any discount on the green backs I will make it up to you for all that you have on hands ( when this cruel war is over ) when I get home = & if goverment does not redeem it I will that is what you have on hands when I get home I will send you a 5 cts of the last isue of postage curency remember thy creator in the days of thy youth for the eavel days cometh not & so forth 1864 vol. 756 New orleans D.A.I.L.Y. times June 28 No. 9 & now as I have writen this letter on a diferent subject I do not think that is will have any thing to do with former letters so you must excuse my excentric notions & pardon all extremes which I am sory to say I am apt to run to in hasty expressions as you may find in this leter but if you are careful & considerd you may find some good advise espresly if you will take all kinds this letter leaves me well & harty hoping that you may be well when you receive it Kiss the baby for me & tel George to kiss you for me I took my 2 shirts as the cloths ration to a Lady to make & this morning I went to see her or the shirts & she had made one two litle & will have to make it over she laught & said that she did not think that that I was any larger than she was but in this she was mistaken espeshly in the rists & neck I have 3 pants 5 shirts 3 drawers 4 socks 1 over coat one hat pare of shoes & now Lizzie I am yours truly with out fail & I will remember you Mack A Hooker to Lizzie Love Hooker [written sideways across the letter] let me know if you get 2 letters with a dollar bill in each one & one writen at Alexandria & one at this place I think the one writen at Alexandria was captured by the rebels; the wether is very hot here now when on this your eys you cast remember whare you saw me last Lizzie I will be happy when I am blest with the return to your arms ever more I think in 13 months now I will be at home to sea you for to stay I am not coming home on a furlow for you know the terms of furlows & I am not going to comply with the demand for a furlow I hope that you will excuse my last letter & when I write again I will writ more as you say when you write to me the boys is all well & harty Mart is get about well give my love to all inquiring frends or save it all to your self do not care which Remember me when this you sea tho many will forget me another year & then McAllister A. Hooker to Elizabeth Jane Hooker Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

Morganza La June 22nd/64 My Dear Elizabeth I seat my self to drop you a few lines to inform you that I am well to day except of a soar mouth my mouth has bin soar for some time & it looks lik I cant cure it I have just returnd from the landing Martha came this far with me on bord the Sultana bound for Cairo Ills George Carey also was in that boat Martha wil proberly beat this letter home if so I hope that she has got thare safe & I trust that you & her will be of servis to each other during my absence I sent my coat home that I capturd at bayou Chafalaya I thought that it would be to hard to keep washt you ought to have sean me this morning when I put on a new shirt & a paper colar some to those times I am going to have my photograph taken some of theas times when I get lots of money & I dont know if I dont send you on of them now Lizzie anything that you want don tel Martha & Jimey & they can help you Jimey is big anough to go to mill & hall up wood & go to town I hope that you all will stay together til I come home if you can agreably if not wil so so of corse = now Lizie I am not going to write much this time for my mouth hurts & frets me I wil send you some money as soon as I can get some give my respects to all Hamilton County & save all my love for your self now good by Lizie My Dear Jimey is to do all the work out doors & you must tel him how to do George must go to scool all the time I am you husband til deth M A Hooker Morganza Louisiana Camp 87 Illinois Vol Vets 1864 camp 87 Ills Vol. Vets. Yours truly M A Hooker ___________________________ Martha Brown nee Hooker was his sister born in Henderson County KY before the war. How she ended up in New Orleans in the middle of the war is a mystery to us now but she had married an unknown Mr. Brown before the war and had a young son Jimmy. More mention later of Martha and Jimmy. We have no knowledge of what happened to Mr. Brown. Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

Morganza Louisiana Friday June the 10th/64 My Dear Elizabeth I hasten to drop you a letter not that I am in a hury but having to do my writing when I have nothing else to do & not knowing when I wil be cald on to do something I tharefour shall improve the present time in droping a small letter to you I am well & harty as ever & I hope this may find you well thare was a mail come to day I got only one letter ( rather uncomon two ) & it was from Bety Prichett she said that you was well she did write me a good letter & I think she deserves better luck than she has had but an allwise provadence has the management of our spiedutal[?] afares & to him be all the Praze we are now in camp we got in yesterday from a 4 days scout up the river we did not find much rebels & tharefour did not have much of interest we got some 4 or 5 prisners the wether is very hot now with a shower of rain evry hour or two about anough to give a man a good weting if he goes out to the river or any whare else a shower of rain has just past over & left evry thing good wet I received a letter from Elvira Ashby the other day she & her litle Mack was well she spels his name this way Mcilister Ashby ha,ha,ha,ha Captain J T Anderson is struting around here as usal he promist me twice to give me a furlo to go to Thibadeaux, La but he has not don so and I do not know whether he will or not = he told me this morning that he would presntly but has not donit the mess is all well to day Samuel is writing Mart is seting in his tent lisening to John Clark reading a letter from somebody I do not know [torn] Oscar is walking around & Lee is out some whare or other the black boy Joe is gon to the river after watter to get dinar I have got a two litle chickens one rooster & one hen & they stay rite around my tent & look like it is all rite with them but some of thease days I will pass a sentance on them & they will have go the way of all southerners & I will be the beter off by it for I will have a mess of soup with peper & salt I have nothing of importance to write & I am lazy two that you know is the cause of to many short letters being sent to frends afar off Joe is biling some beaf for super or dinar rather for it is not so late yet but what a man must eat dinar M A Hooker Morganza Louisiana when you spell Louisiana put in 3 a's one i & one n & the n next to the last a thare is no news of importance going on I maild you a letter the other day with a dollar of Lincoln green in it Tel George to be a good litle boy tel him & tel Alice that I am well & I am coming home some day to sea how they have groad When this you sea remember me tho many milds apart we be excuse my carelessness for I am so mean that I can hardly live yours truly til deth M A Hooker to Elizabeth Jane Hooker & son Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

Morganza Louisiana June the 5th/64 My Dear Elizabeth Jane Hooker after a long scout of 7 days & nights I have got back to this place I received a letter from you while I was gon I think the date was May the 14th it found me well as also this leaves me & I hope that it may find you well We had a big time we started out south west went nearly to chaffalea bayou & turnd away to the river 15 or 20 milds below Port Hudson & came up the river to camp but stopt to chase the rebels evry time we could here of them we had severl litle scurmishes with them & one morning we got the rebels brakfast & eat it & pusht on after them the nigars was just redy to hand it out to them when we dasht in & took possesion of the hole thing it come very handy for we had not had our brakfast we pusht on after them & routed them out of the nest & took about $3,000 dollars worth of store goods such as hats pants shirts & drawers I got 4 pare of drawers my self wine & rum & whisky lots of it we allso capturd 35 horses & muels we got what we could eat such as pork beaf corn bread biscuit bacon & milk & buter after we get all we could we came back we lost one kild & 4 wounded & we capturd 20 prisners & kild 5 of them that we no of & 2 ofersers one Captain Major Badger of the 1st Louisiana was wounded slitly I hope tho that he will soon be abel to go as he is a good Ofercer you said that you thought that I mout have writen to Eliza all about Henrys deth I would apoligize if thare had not bin others to have don the same thing whom I depended on I was scouting evry day & fighting evry day & when Peter Leak left I told him to write for the boys & let the folks at home know how they was but he got a furlo unexpected by us & also by him self but he is at home now & can tel all about the fight that Henry was kild in not with standing as soon as I get don I will write to her & tel her all that I know about his deth I was a litle suprisd to no how much Gates charged for coming to sea the baby if I was to gess I would gess that his presence did about as much good as a drumer does is the servis & that is nun but we must not grumble at charges for that is what keeps them up & we all have to live this is a beter contry than we have for to mak corn the wether has bin rainey now for a weak & corn is silking steam boats is plowing the Missippi & business is going on briskly the rebel Army is not any ways close to us & all is quiet My horse is all rite & he is a splended horse I ride him all day & turn him loose at night & let him pick round camp = the boys is all well but Marten & I do not know where he is but I gess he is at N. orleans Oscar Mart & myself was at a house last night garding it & got a nice super & lep in the Hall that is something extrie for us yankees as the rebels call us we rode in to a pen to water our horses yesterday & Major Lands horse lade down with him & coverd him up in mud & water raising a big laughf in the 87th we went in to an old stabel the other night to get corn & got coverd with flees & when we lade down to try to sleep you would have laughft to have sean us kicking & jumping & shaking blankets & striping off our clothes but if we have to stay down here with dogs we may expect to have flees on us if we get out of our plases & stop to long & get back to the rear thare is a litle squad that makes us get down & walk about 4 milds & you may know that I am not fond of walking & so I do not go back thare if I stop I take good care to not get to far back You said friday evening 4 o clk P.M. May the 13 I wonder what Mack is doing I can tel you I was about 8 milds this side of Alexandria La. stopt at the side of the road to wate for the infantry to come up & as I am teling I wil not omit to tel you what I was doing all tho it was not rite; I was reading a very interesting book that I had picked up in the road it was a novel but about now I am sweting like a nigar at a Lection & thare is some of them old flies on me yet & they seam to me to be a rival for the litle raksals is trying to keep me from writing to my dearest the wether is cloudy & looks like rain = Sam is writing & Mart is reading a litle book that we got on a scout & Oscar is writing a letter & Lee is gon to get some grub for the regt = & now as I have to write severl letters I must close for the present hoping to here from you soon I still remain your true Husband til deth shal part us you must escuse my bad writing & I wil squease you, oh as excuse yours give my love to all inquiring frends & save all the best for your self tel george that I am going to send him a litle book but he must learn to read M. A. Hooker to Elizabeth Jane Hooker Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

Misty, Thanks for all your hard work and sacrifice as I am sure many will enjoy it. I have grandparents and other relatives in Middle Creek Cemetery. I finished the photos of each monument & marker in the Gholson Cemetery a few days ago but as you mentioned it will be some time before they will all be posted. I wanted to get the old stones archived before they get broken up by mowing, vandals or disappear from the cemetery as many have. It troubles me to see stones with raised letters sink into the soil and the letters get cut off by mowing over the tops of them. James Gholson

Great job, Misty! This must have been a big undertaking. I, for one, appreciate all of your hard work very much! Carol "Yesterdays in Hamilton Co., IL"

I am getting more of the Hamilton Co cemeteries online. The newest is Middle Creek. Photos are added to each stone and all cemeteries will be current as of 2002. I will get these cemeteries up as soon as I can. There are now 15 cemeteries to be posted which are current complete with pictures of stones. These have also been printed in books and will be donated to the libraries. A lot to do here and little time, but maybe they will get completed by the fall. Enjoy! http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhamcem/ -Misty-

In camp on bayo Chakeliah 10 P.M. May the 18th 1864 My Dearest Lizabeth with some inconvienance & a degree of haste I shall indever to address you it has bin sometime since I atempted such the river below Alexandria has bin blockaded for a long time & the rebels capturd 2 of our boats & got two mails that we no of one coming from home & one going to home burnt the boats & sunk them & so the other day we started & fought our way thru the rebels did not make much of a stand til we got to Marksville 30 milds from Alexandria & thare the 16th after a litle fighting on the evening befour they made a stand in the open peraid at the edge of the timber the 3rd brigade of Cavelry & 1st marcht up & had to fall back throde out pickets & went in camp & wated for the infantry so on the morning of the 16th we all marcht out the 3rd & 1st brig leading the way the rebels met us & soon skirmishing comenst the cavelry formd & drove them on & on to the edge of the timber & we moved on & all was silent directly we got up as close as the rebels wanted us & they opend on us with 15 peases of Artilery all at once with grape & canester the hole air was full of flying iron & led & shells & canon balls but it did not hurt much for it lookt like that it hit evry whare else but whare we was thare was 4 canon balls that struk the ground in front of our company & jumpt it one of them did not jump hie anough & hit a bugel on one of our boys sadels but soon our artilery opend on them & we give way to the flanks & let the infantry in & they marcht on as tho nothing had hapend but they did not get to sho thare hand til the rebels got up & left on duble quick our men pored it in to them as they left they turnd off an other road & we come on we got here of the 17th found our gun boats here & we have stopt & throde a pontoon bridge across this bayou & are going to cross & I recon go on to the Mississippi river some 19 milds from here whare I gess we will recrute & rest a while as we come on down I hear whare the rebels had burnt our boats & tore & scaterd our mail in evry direction they broke open all of them we found some that was directed to Co A but they went rong one to Lieutenant Meadors I recon if the Northern Ladys had known that the rebels would have read thare letter they would not like it much we left some of them at Marksville that will not read any more of our letters I ust to think that I did not want to kill any of them but now I had as soon shoot at one of them as as hogy[?] & I am not going to try to miss them a purpose our loss in the fight on the 16 was not more than ten rebel loss unknown 87 won the rebels come up to day away back some 8 milds in the rear & I herd this evening that our men whipt them good fashen thay have tride to do something ever since we left Grandecore & they have allways got the worst of it we have whipt them evry time they are not coming tho now in much forse & when we turn on them they get back they get all around us at Alexandria & our gun boats was above the shoals & we could not keep them from the river & they sent word in to us that we belonged to them but I rather think that we was very unruly children May the 19th 1864 this is a beautiful morning we are sadeld up thare is a grate many things that maks my hart ache to sea one grate thing is burning evry thing the Army comenst burning at Alexandria that place was burnd to the ground & all along to this place women & children turnd out of dores & I have sean them cry for protection & not lisend to you know nothing about this war I cannot help but say Lord have mercy on a woman & her children eaven if her husband is in the army we have not got any mail for a long time I would like to here from you now & I hope it wil not be long til we wil get a mail I do not know whare we wil go but we may go to Neworleans or Batenrouge one of the other I am well & harty hoping that this may find you well I have a letter that has been written a long time but I wil send it as it does not mater with it about being late camp near Fort Smith May the 19/64 12 milds from the Mouth of Red river Remember me when this you sea tho many milds apart we be I still remain yours truly til deth Give my respects to all & save all my love for your self M A Hooker to Elizabeth Jane Hooker Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

Alexandria, Louisiana May 8, 1864 My Dear and sweet Elizabeth: I am proud to inform you this nice morning that I recieved from under your hand of the 10th April one of the best letters I ever got in all my life. It appeared so loving and in such good spirits that I loved the very letter itself. It made me feel so good to read it that I have not got over it yet. There was something about it that seemed to cheer my heart. It seemed to me when I was reading it that I was with you then and realy when I got through I looked around to see if you was not there. Last night after Sam Richardson and me had fixt our palet ( for we sleep together now) we had shown and read several letters from home to the boys that was gone to the hospital and after Sam read several of them I took out yours and read such as I thought proper and he declared that it was the best letter he ever heard. It did not have that long tone to it and sighs and groans which some folks think would please a man and make him think that they love him so good that they can't live long but it had a familiar tone to it that sounded so lovely that I wish that I had a hundred such letters as that. You speak of the wheat and oats and grapes in the yard and the little pine sprints and your draft horses and the peach tree was dear to ¦¦¦ and lots of other things was in them lovely sheets. It was not the subject that made it so good as the manor in which it was spoke or declared and on last night as I dropped off to sleep, I thought that I loved you better than I ever did than in all my life if such a thing could be possible. You said that you had plenty to eat with the exception of bread but as I learned there is plenty of flower to sell in town at 3 dollars a hundred I shal expect you not to want even for bread. If you get the money that I sent you which I have no doubt that you will I never want my little children to want for bread while I am living tho I may be so far away from them. and I am not uneasy about it either as long as they have as good a mother as they have. I have thought that if you was to leave them that they do not look to me for protection but one thing I am proud to say and that is that I have never bin a disgrace to my family since I came in the Army and have always tride to conduct myself as near rite as I could. Tell little George that I am well and hearty and that I have not forgotten him yet and that I have a good horse to ride and have to ride a good deal and that he must be a good little boy and learn his book so he can read and write like me. Kiss the baby for me and tell George to kiss you for me and you let the baby kiss him. I am bout the same ala seven to 6 and it is no use to tell you that above all in this world I would love to see you the best and may God bless the hand that wrote that sweet letter and if I had been rite behind you when you was writing I should have stolen a kiss. I have had 3 nights rest now and I feel like another man. I had my hare trimmed close and washed all my clothes and last night I patched my drawers and britches. I have worn out my socks you sent me and throwed them away. I have tried to darn socks 3 times and it looks like something was the matter all the time. I am going to ask a favor of you and that is to do me up a nice pair of socks and send them to me by mail. It will only cost 12 cents to send them or anything that does not weigh over 2 pounds. If you was to send them to me I would thank you for them. There is a peas of a song that runs about as follows he's gone but only the Lord knows where perhaps ne never never will return perhaps he's taken shiping far away and left me in this wide worls alone. If he ever comes back to his dear girls arms his curly curly locks I'll unfold I never will chastise him for treating me so but admire him for being so bold. I think I would be more useful to you now than I was for I can wash and patch and cook too. I think I am a good cook in minutes and as long as I want the Army to stop for me to start fire and get coffee made and boil meat and I can eat as I go along. You must tell them fellas that did not come into the service that if they are hardcome for the necesarrys of life I can tell them how to do as I have bin in the the Army till I have learned how to take all advantages (for fear of hard times) keep all they've got and for a hungry stomach take a peace of meat and hang it up and jump up and swallow it and let it pull out and so on until the stomach becomes soft then swallow a piece of paper some soldier has sent home. Now I must close by saying to you to write me when you can and remember me Yours truly, M. A. Hooker to E. J. Hooker May 9, 1864 being unable to mail my letter to the office I can tell you that I am well and hardy today and we have marching orders to leave here we think that we are going to go to the Mississippi River someplace belo Natchez. I was on picket yesterday and me and the rebel pickets got along fine. We stood in site of each other and he did not shoot and neither did I. General Price is said to be in two days march of us and we have got as many rebels now as we can manage and I guess that is the reason of us going to leave. I stood to see one of our men run rite into the rebel lines yesterday and seen them capture him. I could have told him but I let him alone just to see them take him in. Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

Alexandria Louisiana Apl the 28th/64 My Dear Elizabeth I shal imbrace the present opportunity of writing you a letter this is a pleasant day & I am in camp resting for the 1st day in a long time it looks like mid somer the fighting seams to be over for a while tho the rebels seams very gentle yet for they keep close to us & day befour yesterday our brigade was scurmishing close anough to them for them to ask what regt it was & the other day when they got in front of our regt & our company drove them back we haled & asked them to come back & get some hard tack & sow beley but they did not like the way we shook hands with them it has bin a long time since I have writen to you & I do not no any beter plan to tel you what I have bin doing for 8 or 9 days than to take out my day book & give you a few sceches out of it Apl the 20th/64 oderd to be redy to move stil in camp at Grandecore La 21st went on picket scurmishing on our left 22nd left the pickets lines at 2 A.M. left Grandecore at day brake Army moving towards Alexandria 1st brigade brings up the rear 23rd 7 A.M. fighting comenst in front 9 A.M. heavy canonading 12 A.M. atacked in the rear 87th sent to the left flank 1 P.M. Co A on picket on the swamp 4 P.M. rebels routed in front our men taken 4 prisners 87th went to the front 10 P.M. went in camp Apl 24 got brakfast & fed 7 A.M. sadeld up Army pasing 8 A.M. heavy canonading on the river 10 A.M. heavy fighting in the rear 87th went on a scout on the rite flank 5 P.M. laying in the line of batle on the tunel hill road 25th stil in line of batle on the tunel hill road scurmishing in the rear 4 P.M. Marcht on 6 P.M. scurmishing in the rear 7 P.M. stopt & lay in line of batle all night 26th 7 A.M. started 3rd brig in the rear some scurmishing 10 A.M. rebels get in front of our brigade & the 4th Co A drove them 3 P.M. stopt & went in camp 7 P.M. went on picket 27 on picket on the Texas road heavy canonading up the river 2 P.M. stil on picket 6 P.M. released from picket went to camp 28 in camp 10 A.M. I am writing a leter to Lizie this beautiful morning finds me well & harty hoping it may find you & my litle childring altho mess No 1 is cut down in number all the other boys is well & harty John was doing well the last time I herd from him & it was thought that George Careys hand would have to be cut off so you sea I have not bin idal for severl days it has bin that way ever since I lef Franklin it is no use to tel you of the fight for you wil sea that in the papers & I do not like to talk of it for I never shal forget the roar of the 1st days fight I was leading a horse when we comenst retreating & I never herd such nois & sean such runing in all my life for a mil wide the hole woods was in a roar of horseman & footman & wagons & artilery & the rebels was poring in the batch all the time in our retreating Army a mile or 10 back we found the 19 Corps in line of batle for you sea that they had not come to help us & the rebs was about 4 to our one the retreating column fel back behind them & the rebels come on them & they pord in such a voly of musketry in to the advancing rebels that made the woods trimble this checked them for a while but they over poured the 19 boys & all fell back to Pleasant Hill & thare we found old Generl Smith with the 16th Corps & on 2nd day we whipt them & drove them back & that night the rebels fell back 16 milds & us 15 milds throing the Armys 30 milds apart but they found out that we was faling back & they turnd back & took the batle feald I have a good horse now tel George that he need not be uneasy about my horse for I have got a good one now it is about 1 hundred 25 milds from here to Mansfeald whare the batle was fought & in coming from thare we rode about 2 hundred milds sometimes I would get so tierd of riding that I could not hardly stand it very oftain we would ride all night & severl good naps have I taken on my horse & I wil tel you a dream that I dremp on my horse one night about midnight I dremp that I run in among some rebels & they all had swiches & they comenst whiping me & it hurt so that I awake & found my horse had left the rode & was brusing thru the brush & the limbs was flying back & hiting me I turnd him back in the road & found that my Company had gon on past me another time we stopt & I got down & lay down by a stump & of corse was asleep in a minut & when I waked up the Co. had got ahead of me considerable & one day we stopt & all of us was laying down holding our horses & I went to sleep & let him go & when I awak my horse was gon I run round but soon found him picking off a peace from me nearly evry time I lay down with my horse in hand I let him go now they say sadel up & I must quit no rest for the wery M A Hooker Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

in Camp at Grandcoer on Red River Louisanana April the 14th 1864 My Dear Elizabeth I shall try to imploy my self in writing you a small leter if I should be so blest as to get to finish it befour I have to go on duty I have not had a moment to spare since the fight to do any thing our army lef Natchez such a litle place 4 milds from here & started for Sureavesport & at Pleasant Hill 40 milds from here & thare the fighting comenst our regt was in front & 2 milds further on at willsons hill the rebels made a stand & we dismounted & went in to them part of our regt is the 1st La Calv about 400 strong & the rebels about 2000 strong we fought them about an hour as over & our ammunition got out & the rebs charged on us & we had to fall back John was wounded rite at the start & Henry Carey was kild & Lieutenant Meadors wounded & I am afrade mortaly & George Carey & Peter Leak was wounded in the hand slitly the 87th lost kild & wounded & missed 24 I did not get tuchd only a hole thru my coat tail I was rit by John when he was shot Henry fell close to me but I did not see him til after the fight I was in the hotest of it & thru the merses of God I am still alive & well & harty the mail went out yesterday but I was out on duty & did not get to write to you & you will here from the fight befour you get this Johns left leg was cut off above the nee he stood it like a man After the rebels charged on us & drove us from the feald we raled got reinforcement & drove them from the feald & then the fighting ceased & our brigade fell back to the rear & we marchd on I do not no how many we kild but from the sign of blood we must have kild more of them than they did of us when they charged on us I did not run til the Conel said fall back & then the rebs was rit at at my heals they halowed halt halt but I did not halt if I had I would now hav bin a prisner wel as I said we marchd on til night then we went in camp our Regt was out on picket that night all but our camp it went out to look for som water & that night the rebs charged on the 87th & the boys let them get up close to them & they turnd loose on them kild 36 in one pile & did not get a man hurt so ended the fight for the 1st day the second day our brigade was behind & the 4th & 5th & 1st brigades of Calv & the 13th A.C. went in to the feald & such fighting I never did here befour & never do want to again the 19 A.C. was to late to help us & the rebels com on in tremendous columes & our men helt them as long as they could & after they got out of ammunition & the rebels had taken about 2000 prisners & was about to suround them they fell back in perfect confusion the wagons turnd in the road & started back on duble quick a grat many of them turnd over in the road & blocked up the road so that it was imposable to get the artlery a past them & lots of our canon was taken on that account all this time the 19 army corps was 3 milds behind & all the cavalry & the shaterd 13 A.C. retreated with such a roar that I never will forget our regt marchd back the best of any of them as we was not cut up & confusd like the balence of them was the road was narow & each sid was grode up with thick pine timber & for a mile each sid of the road was thick with men & horses giving a hand as they could & the rebels was dashing up into our retreating colum cuting & slashing & taking prisners & capturing artilery & wagons til we got back to the 19 A.C. we found them in line wating we fell back behind them & they pord a voley in to the advancing army of rebs & stopt them a while & then all fell back we continued our retreat to pleasant hill about 13 milds from the feald of batel by the time we got thare it was daylight having marchd all night at pleasant hill we stopt so ended the 2nd day at pleasant hill we found smiths division the 3rd day we continued our retreat to this place & at pleasant hill smith formd his command on each sid of the road & at 8 o clk the rebels com on & he picht in to them & it is said by men that was there that pleasant hill was literly strode with dead rebels & thare the tune turnd on them & smith recapturd some of our canon & taken 1000 prisners & drove them back then smith fell back to this place & here we are campt on the river resting & recruting up the army we have got som reinforse ments but not many yet so you see we was defeated & the worst of all is that it was for the want of a good Generl to command Generl Banks was on the feald & got his horse shot from under him he did not sho any personal fear for he is not afeard of bulets but he did maneg the afare very badly & if it had not bin for the 16th A.C. commanded by Generl smith we would all have bin taken in I do not no how much the rebels got but besids 2000 prisners they got a lot of wagons loded with suplies & ammunition I cant tel you our loss for I do not no & I no less about the rebels loss than I do of ours but many a poore felow lost his life during them 3 days & now Lizzie I hope this will find you as well as it leaves me & I hope to here from you often I sent you 40 dollars about 2 weeks ago I received yours of the 17th yesterday containing one from April 7 of Mess No 1 went in to the fight & one got kild & 3 wounded we morn the days of Henry & John but it cant be helpt John I think will get well & I hope will get home the commander of our brigade got wounded I taken Henry things out of his pocket & gave them to George Carey & now Lizzie good by remember me yours truly Mack _______________________ Henry Carey who died from a gunshot to the head was married to his wife's sister Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

April 7th it was actively engaged at the battle of Wilson's Hill, losing about 30 men in killed and wounded. On the 8th of April it took part in the battle of Sabine Cross Roads, or Mansfield, and was the only Regiment, in that disastrous defeat, that left the field in regimental formation. It stood on the ground while the Nineteenth Corps formed its line of battle behind it. In this battle Colonel H. Robinson, First Louisiana, our Brigade commander, was wounded, and Colonel John M. Crebs, Eighty-seventh Illinois, was placed in command of the Brigade. On the 9th the Regiment was in the battle of Pleasant Hill. On the retreat from Sabine Cross Roads to Alexandria the Eighty-seventh was either in the front, flank or rear of the retreating column, and constantly engaged with the enemy's skirmishers. May 13th it was in the advance, and continually under fire in the movement from Alexandria to Simsport, on Atchafalaya Bayou, being in the battle of Marksville on the 15th of May. On May 21 the Regiment went into camp at Morganza Bend La., where it remained during the summer and fall, engaged in foraging, scouting, and almost constant warfare. Part of this time it was on the steamer Baltic, one of the Marine Brigade boats. During these months the Regiment was kept busy scouting and fighting along the network of bayous between the Mississippi river on the east and Atchafalaya on the west; Red River on the north and Bayou Plaquemine on the south. There was no part of that country it did not know thoroughly. It fought on Bayou Gross Tete, Bayou Letsworth, Bayou Manguine, Bayou Atchafalaya and along the lakes of Old river. It captured more prisoners, horses and stores - destroyed more Confederate property - than all the combined forces camped at Morganzia. Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723

No obit in "Legacy of Kin" Rosewillis6649@aol.com wrote: > James David Counsil/Council died in Hamilton County, Illinois in 1911. I > would appreciate an obituary or cemetery location for Mr. Counsil. Thanks > Wanda > > ==== ILHAMILT Mailing List ==== > Listowner, Michael L. Hebert mailto:mhebert.usgw@charter.net > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Visit the Hamilton County, Illinois Genealogy USGenWeb site at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhamilt/