Census Place: Mcleansboro, Hamilton, Illinois Source: FHL Film 1254210 National Archives Film T9-0210 Page 526B Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace William SHUSTER Self M M W 54 TN Occ: Farmer Fa: VA Mo: VA Martha SHUSTER Wife F M W 38 TN Occ: Keeping House Fa: TN Mo: TN John C. SHUSTER Son M S W 17 IL Occ: Farm Laborer Fa: TN Mo: TN Sarah ADAMS Other F S W 6 IL Fa: TN Mo: TN -------------------------------------------------------------------- No luck on Ben! SHUSTER, Benjamin Self <1835> M W NJ NJ SHUSTER, Ben Son <1859> M W IL MO SHUSTER, Benjamin B. Son <1859> M W NJ NJ SCHUSTER, Benjamin Son <1871> M W OH OH SHUSTER, Benjamin Son <1874> M W PA PA SCHUSTER, Benjamin Son <1875> M W MN MN SCHUSTER, Benjamin Son <1879> M W MO MO
James David Counsil/Council died in Hamilton County, Illinois in 1911. I would appreciate an obituary or cemetery location for Mr. Counsil. Thanks Wanda
Census Place: Mcleansboro, Hamilton, Illinois Source: FHL Film 1254210 National Archives Film T9-0210 Page 546B Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Eliza UPCHURCH Self F W W 44 IL Occ: Keeping House Fa: SC Mo: NC Lewis GOODEN SSon M S W 14 IL Occ: Farm Laborer Fa: KY Mo: IL Sarah F. GOODEN Dau F S W 9 IL Fa: KY Mo: IL Evaline GOODEN Dau F S W 4 IL Fa: KY Mo: IL Sarah HUNTER Mother F W W 79 NC Occ: At Home Fa: NC Mo: NC ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Census Place: Knights Prairie, Hamilton, Illinois Source: FHL Film 1254210 National Archives Film T9-0210 Page 479A Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Joseph UPCHURCH Self M M W 34 TN Occ: Farmer Fa: TN Mo: TN Margaret UPCHURCH Wife F M W 30 TN Occ: Keeping House Fa: TN Mo: TN Annie UPCHURCH Dau F S W 4 --- Fa: --- Mo: --- Mary E. UPCHURCH Dau F S W 8M IL Fa: TN Mo: TN Mary A. CHAPLAIN Other F M W 44 SC Occ: House Keeping Fa: SC Mo: SC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Census Place: Mcleansboro, Hamilton, Illinois Source: FHL Film 1254210 National Archives Film T9-0210 Page 532A Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace John UPCHURCH Self M M W 29 TN Occ: Farmer Fa: TN Mo: TN Abigail UPCHURCH Wife F M W 25 IL Occ: Keeping House Fa: IL Mo: IL Arthur UPCHURCH Son M S W 4 IL Fa: TN Mo: IL Lawrance UPCHURCH Son M S W 7M IL Fa: TN Mo: IL Albert CRANCE Other M S W 9 IL Fa: IL Mo: IL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Census Place: Mcleansboro, Hamilton, Illinois Source: FHL Film 1254210 National Archives Film T9-0210 Page 551D Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace James H. UPCHURCH Self M M W 28 TN Occ: Farmer Fa: TN Mo: TN Adaline UPCHURCH Wife F M W 17 IL Occ: Keeping House Fa: KY Mo: KY ______________________________________________ Census Place: Flannigan, Hamilton, Illinois Source: FHL Film 1254210 National Archives Film T9-0210 Page 496C Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace James SMITH Self M M W 42 IL Occ: Farmer Fa: TN Mo: TN Sarah A. SMITH Wife F M W 36 TN Occ: Keeping House Fa: VA Mo: VA Willis SMITH Son M S W 16 IL Occ: At Home Fa: IL Mo: TN George SMITH Dau F S W 12 IL Occ: At Home Fa: IL Mo: TN Mary SMITH Dau F S W 11 IL Occ: At Home Fa: IL Mo: TN Sarah SMITH Dau F S W 5 IL Fa: IL Mo: TN Ora E. SMITH Dau F S W 1 IL Fa: IL Mo: TN Alice UPCHURCH Other F S W 26 IL Occ: House Keeper Fa: IL Mo: TN --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Census Place: Shelton, Hamilton, Illinois Source: FHL Film 1254210 National Archives Film T9-0210 Page 442D Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Robert UPCHERCH Self M M W 22 IL Occ: Farming Fa: --- Mo: --- Dora UPCHERCH Wife F M W 21 IL Occ: Keeping House Fa: --- Mo: --- Wilferd UPCHERCH Son M S W 1 IL Fa: IL Mo: IL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Census Place: Shelton, Hamilton, Illinois Source: FHL Film 1254210 National Archives Film T9-0210 Page 442D Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Robert UPCHERCH Self M M W 22 IL Occ: Farming Fa: --- Mo: --- Dora UPCHERCH Wife F M W 21 IL Occ: Keeping House Fa: --- Mo: --- Wilferd UPCHERCH Son M S W 1 IL Fa: IL Mo: IL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Census Place: Mcleansboro, Hamilton, Illinois Source: FHL Film 1254210 National Archives Film T9-0210 Page 523D Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Willburn BOND Self M M W 40 IL Occ: Farmer Fa: KY Mo: IL Solista BOND Wife F M W 34 IL Occ: Keeping House Fa: IL Mo: IL Lucus BOND Son M S W 14 IL Occ: Farm Laborer Fa: IL Mo: IL Riley BOND Son M S W 12 IL Occ: Farm Laborer Fa: IL Mo: IL Albert BOND Son M S W 9 IL Fa: IL Mo: IL Andrew J. BOND Son M S W 2 IL Fa: IL Mo: IL Pinkney HOLLAND SonL M M W 18 IL Occ: Farm Laborer Fa: IL Mo: IL Ann HOLLAND Dau F M W 17 IL Occ: At Home Fa: IL Mo: IL Felix UPCHURCH SSon M S W 10 IL Occ: Farm Laborer Fa: TN Mo: IL Sarah UPCHURCH SDau F S W 7 IL Fa: TN Mo: IL Anna UPCHURCH SDau F S W 5 IL Fa: TN Mo: IL -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
___________________________________ in camp near Alexandria, La March the 22/64 Dear Elizabeth after a march of one hundred & 50 miles in 6 days this morning finds us in camp near Alexandria La on red river if any thing would mak a man forget home & frends a long march on half anough to eat should we marched so fast that we did not have any chance but when ever we did stop we don as Peter was commanded to do we stade & eat tho some times we travel all day & half of the night without stoping to feed or eat when we did stop we had plenty of corn & foder & hoggs & catle Alexandria was taken befour we got here we did not have any fighting on the rode except some scurmishing the first day the rebels has gon to swreveport it raind all day yesterday & this morning is very mudy I put on some dry clothes last night & slep in a shuck pen this morning the sun is shining & I hope we have prity wether among the things that acurd on the march was imence clouds of dust [torn] farms that was planted in corn & coton & cain we taken all the horses & mules & the nigars folowed corn is about 3 inches hie but but got frost bit the other night this is a fin contry rebels is coming in & giving them selves up every day 4 came to us yesterday while I was on picket I mad them som coffee & give them plenty to eat som of them have never sean a yanky they seamd to think them very clever I will allways treat them that leaves the rebels as I would treat a man of four thought & noleg or a gentleman the rebels retreated befour us tearing up bridges & burning coton I do not no how long we wil stay here tho not long & I thing thare is an expedition on foot for swevesport 150 milds up the river you may gess my chance to write by looking at this leter if any money comes to you for Martha keep it til futher oders I have no chance to do any thing now they told us a few minuts ago to write leters & now they are teling us to fech them in not giving us but a few minuts to writ so you se my chance tho I thought you would like to no whether I was alive or not give my respects to all & save all my love for your self & now may God bless you & take care of you yours Mack to Lizie Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723
Franklin La March the 8th/64 My Dear Elizabeth I take my seat in haste to tel you that this leaves me well & harty as I hope it finds you & the children we are going to start from here & perhaps by the time you read this I will be if I am alive severl mils from here towards Texas or Arkansas we have not drawed yet I am sory that I cannot send you money befour I start but I have not got any & all that I can say is that I wil send you some the first chance in the morning we start on the march to day is as hot as it well can be & the sun shines on my paper so hot that I can not hard write our destination is supose to be Alexandria or Swrevesport on Red River thare wil no doubt be some fighting I have just come off picket & you must escus my short leter for I have to fix to start I hope you will do as you best can & not uprade your unworthy servant write soon your humble companion til deth M A Hooker to Home Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723
July 20th, 1863, the Regiment marched back to Vicksburg, and on the 25th of July embarked for Natchez. here it made an excursion back into the country to Kingston, capturing a vast pile of Confederate cotton. August 10, 1863, In company with the Forty-seventh Indiana, it embarked for New Orleans. These were the first Western troops making the descent of the Mississippi River. Here the Second Brigade-Slack's-was assigned to the Third Division of the Thirteenth Corps. September 13, 1863, found the Regiment at Brashear City, La. While here the Colonel, John E. Whiting, resigned on account of ill health, Colonel John M. Crebs taking command officially, as he had been the commander virtually after the regiment arrived at Memphis, Tenn. During September and October the Regiment was engaged in the movements along the Atchafalaya and Teche Bayous, being in the affairs at Grand Coteau and Vermillionville, La. In November, 1863, the Regiment was mounted on the stock of the country-mustangs,Mexican,ponies and mules-it rode everything except steers-and were occupied in scouting duty about Franklin and New Iberia, La. By strict attention to business, good judgement as regards horses, dash and energy, it was the best mounted Regiment in the Department of the Gulf in less than three months. In February, 1864, with the First Louisiana, it formed the Third Brigade, Colonel H. Robinson commanding, in the Cavalry Division of the Department of the Gulf, in command of general A. L. Lee. March 14, 1864, the Eighty-seventh led the cavalry movement from Franklin, La., on the Red River campaign. _______________________________________ Franklin, Louisiana Febuary the 14th/64 My Dear Elizabeth with Jesus this beautiful sabeth morning I seat my self to drop you a few lines to inform you that I am well & harty hoping that this may come to hand in due time & find you & the litle children injoying good helth I have nothing of importence to write the wether here now is beautiful the sun shines brite this norning the green grass is coming on fast what few gardens thare is is coming on nice peas cabeg & letice is nearly green & the wether is warm anough in the midle of the day to make us hunt for shade we got some more horses the other day but our harnesses brakes down faster than we can get them my horse was shot the other day & I have not got any now our duty is not very heavy now & it is said that thare is a brigade coming out from the city to relieve us & we are going to the city in a few days I have bin down to Brashear City after horses I went down on a boat & rode horses back I am expecting to start to night to Terabone station on a 7 days furlough I wish it was 77 so I could go on & sea my sweet hart but it cant be helpt but time is roling on my time was half out yesterday you said that you was in hopes that I would do as well the next 18 months it is true that I have come out tolerble well but I am in hopes that I will not have a rough a times as I have had for I have had some narow escaps & had some sickness but I could have done more but you put me in mind of some of the boys when some of them is at work spading or diging they will say to each other that it goes easey dont it but not with standing I have done well & I am thankful to my Heavenly Father for all the blessings he has bestode on me I think I am going to come out ( if I have good luck ) ( & live ) a stouter man & helthear beter preparde to stand the rub of the world & beter preparde to make my litle home hapy for that is all my studys now is to make home hapy for it is the best plase in the world tho it may seam lonly to you now but thare is more happiness to be sean at that litle plase than in all the citys of the united states & when I think of you & the two litle babys thare all alone it makes me hapy not with standing you have to do many things that I would like to take off of your hands if it was posable but it looks to me like you could be hapeer thare all alone than crowded up with some body else & all I lack of being the happiest man on earth is being thare with you & my litle children tho I feal unworthy of the situation but I do not think that I have any thing else to do in this world but to take care of you & the children & I am going to try to make home the happiest of all other places as far as it lays in my power & I think that if I live to get home I can do a good deal to mak that litle place comfertable you must not think that I would doubt your ability to take charge of what money I send home for I take plesur in trading with you my hard earnings for I am confident that you will not spend my money foolishly & you no I have often told you that I did not want you to sufer for the nesarys of life such as plenty of good warm cloths for you & the children & plenty to eat I am sory that you are out of money I would have sent you some money the other day day but I was out on picket when the express agent came & could not send it & it has bin longer that I anticipated it would be til I drawed again & now it will no be long til thare will be 4 months due us I cant tel you how long it wil be befour I will draw but I am in hopes that it wont be long do not be uneasy but what I wil send you plenty of mony if nothing hapens to me now I hav to go out on inspection & I will finish my leter afterwards yours = I went thru inspection tolerble well I have to have my gun as brite as a dollar the Company is a helthy as they could ask we hav not herd as yet whether the oferses has got any new recreuts or not I mout hav bin to much out of order the last leter & said more than I ought to if I did you must make alowance for it & not think hard of me I have herd no more about the mater & do not want to the President has cald for 500,000 more men to be drafted next march a boy has just com in & give me a paper I will send it to you after I hav read it I do not no that thare is any thing in it but mabe you can find something to interst you lonsum hours I have had newspapers stamps along time & can not use them beter I will now close by saing write soon I will not seal this til evening mabe the mail will come yours truly M A Hooker to Elizabeth Hooker _______________________________ Patrick J. 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The following description of the operations of the Eighty- seventh Illinois is copied from the report of The Adjutant General of the State of Illinois. "The Eighty-seventh Regiment, Illinois Infantry Volunteers, was enlisted in August 1862. It was composed of companies A and E, from Hamilton county, company H, from Edwards, company D, from Wayne, and companies C,B,F,G, I, and K, from White county. In the latter part of August, 1862, the companies went into camp at Shawneetown, Ill., where the organization of the Regiment was effected. It was mustered in October, 3, 1862, the muster to take effect from the 2d day of August. January 31, 1863, it embarked on the two transports Freestone and May Duke for Memphis, Tenn., arriving there February 4th. It was very inclement weather, and during this transfer and its first camp at Memphis, the measles broke out and prevailed with great virulence in the Regiment. This disease cost the Eighty-seventh 250 men in dead and disabled. While at Memphis, the Eighty-seventh, in company with the Sixty-third Illinois, made a raid on Hernando, Miss., capturing a great deal of property, and putting a stop to the incursions of Colonel Bligh's partisan Confederate Cavalry. May 9th, 1863, the Eighty-seventh, and Sixty-third Illinois Regiments embarked on the steamer Crescent City from Memphis, and arrived at Young's Point, La., May 11th. At this place the regiment was actively engaged in picket and fatigue duty, repairing the corduroy road, until the night of the 21st of May, when it crossed the Mississippi river at Warrenton, and went into bivouac in the hills above the town. the next morning the Eighty-seventh and Sixty-third Illinois Regiments, in Brigade commanded by Colonel McCown, of the Sixty-third Illinois, were assigned to General McArthur's Division, on the left of the line of battle. Here they closed up the gap on the extreme left of the line of investment, and remained for six hours under a steady fire of shot and shell from the enemy's works. On the 23rd the whole Regiment was on duty at Warrenton, where it remained until June 23rd, when it was assigned a position in the Second Brigade, General Slack's; Twelfth Division, General Hovey's; Thirteenth Corps, General John A. McClerand's; and took its place in the trenches, until the capture of the city. On the night of July 4th, it moved out on the road to Jackson, Miss., and participated in the battles before and after reaching that place. Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723
Kate, Do some reading of the Homestead Act, which was passed shortly fter the civil war and gave free land away in the western states. You will probably find they got their land in texas through this act. Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723
Hello, List, Does anyone know if there were particularly harsh conditions for farmers in Ham/Jeff/Wayne/Marion area in the mid-1870s? I am searching for a reason my people moved on to Texas between 1875 and 1878. Were there locusts, or drought, or some kind of economic crisis? Any hints or recommended source material? Kate Dobbs Ariail
Would like to see if anyone knows if there was a Broughton, Ill. newspaper in 1915. Would like to see if there is an obituary for Jewell Carter Pearce. Do not know what date he died. Just pretty sure he died at his son, Thomas Pearce's home in 1915 in Broughton, Hamilton County. Thank you for any assistance anyone can give. Roberta Zink __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/
I realize viruses are not an appropriate topic for any of these lists , but I thought I should warn everyone that they do still exist and seem to be hitting again, randomly. The one that came this time was the old SNOW WHITE, etc. Please be cautious when opening files that you either do not know or have not asked for. And if you are the sender of a file , maybe ask first ? With so many postings being send each day, and some of us being on many list this would be easy to overlook. Carolyn Campbell White
Pat You should contact Carol and ask if you can put them on that Hamilton Co. web site. Very Interesting! Thanks! Dianna Wayne Co., IL Co-ordinator: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilwayne host: http://www.iltrails.org/Wayne Yahoo Voice Chat id = d1anna46 AOL-IM id = dlwillie 1 Susan Stewart wrote: > > Keep em coming!! > > Susan
These are wonderful! Thanks for posting, and I hope you put up more of them. Kate ----- Original Message ----- From: <PatAnder73@aol.com> To: <ILHAMILT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 6:22 PM Subject: [ILHAMILT-L] Letter 630730 from Vicksburg, Mississippi > Vicksburg, Miss. > July the 30th/63 > Dear Lizzie > It is now dark & I have got my paper & ink to wright you a few lines I am > going to draw in a few days & I just thought as Sam is going home that would > send som money home as I dident want to keep much on hand at a time & I may > not have a chance to send any for a long time I will send you 40 dollars & as > I have oftan said apropreate it to the best advanteg. you must redeem the > land as finish paying for it I should have said) with the Catle as money one > as the other > I want 10 dollars worth of good flouring plants bought & hald & put som whare > in a strate pile in the shade to season with sticks between each plant I gess > you can get 1000 feet with that much { you must answer som of my leters that > I wright } I wrote something concerning som land that I never got any answer > I wil say now tho however that I would love to have 20 acers down in the > flats joining our land so we could have the timber for rails. Mabe I am to > fast tho if I am tell me so if you get all of the land notes mark them pade & > put them away carfully > It is now dark & have not a chance to wright any I hav write 4 or 5 in the > last 3 days I borowed 20 dollars from Lieutenant Meadors > Yours truly > M. A. Hooker > > > Patrick J. Anderson > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson > 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723 > > > ==== ILHAMILT Mailing List ==== > Listowner, Michael L. Hebert mailto:mhebert.usgw@charter.net > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Search the ILHAMILT-L archives > ------------------------------ > Interactive search: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=ILHAMILT-L > Threaded archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ILHAMILT >
Keep em coming!! Susan
Pat, I for one am not put off by the crude writings. And I enjoy reading them. Keep up the good work. Maureen Sinks Lenzo
I hope there arrren't any list members that object to his use of coarse language. If so I apologize in advance. I would be interested whether you would like me to post more of them???? Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723
Vicksburg, Miss. July the 30th/63 Dear Lizzie It is now dark & I have got my paper & ink to wright you a few lines I am going to draw in a few days & I just thought as Sam is going home that would send som money home as I dident want to keep much on hand at a time & I may not have a chance to send any for a long time I will send you 40 dollars & as I have oftan said apropreate it to the best advanteg. you must redeem the land as finish paying for it I should have said) with the Catle as money one as the other I want 10 dollars worth of good flouring plants bought & hald & put som whare in a strate pile in the shade to season with sticks between each plant I gess you can get 1000 feet with that much { you must answer som of my leters that I wright } I wrote something concerning som land that I never got any answer I wil say now tho however that I would love to have 20 acers down in the flats joining our land so we could have the timber for rails. Mabe I am to fast tho if I am tell me so if you get all of the land notes mark them pade & put them away carfully It is now dark & have not a chance to wright any I hav write 4 or 5 in the last 3 days I borowed 20 dollars from Lieutenant Meadors Yours truly M. A. Hooker Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723
Confiscated Paper in camp at Vicksburg July the 25th 1863 Dear Lizzie thru the Blessings of God I am permited to wright you another leter I have just finisht a leter to you but it has bin so long since I have writen to you that I cant tel you anough in one leter so I wil mail about 3 to you at once I have one that I rote at Jackson with a pencil that is in the wagon that has not com in yet I wil send it two when it comes well I feal to day like a hundred milds march has not hurt me much I would love to sea you & I hope it wont be long til we shal meat again I got a leter from you while I was at Jackson I am looking for one now evry hour Lieutenant Meadors has or Richardson I should have said got home safe & I gess you have got your money we marcht thru a long space of contry coverd with pine timber with here & thare a larg farm & som very good young corn that was planted after the first was destroid or else they amd for it to not get eatable til the war seast in that part on my way I went inside a house to get water & lookt in & sean Bob Paterson laying in thar resting I walkd in spok to him & he new me in a minut & I stade som 2 hours with him he seamd glad to sea me & we talkd over som old times he was perold at Vicksburg & was making his way in to Tenn & then he said if the green river folks woud let him he would take the oath & stay at hom & tend to his oan business he is afrad to take the oath til he finds out whether he can com hom or not he talkt very interesting & spoke of old times as being the hapest of his life & the tears in spite of his eforts to keep them down would fill his eys he is lik many others completly whipt & wiling to submit I loved to be with him I did not look on him as an enemy but an old frend I pited his condision & felt sory for him he told me to writ to his family & tel them that he was stil alive & trying to get home was not very well but was trying to get to his onkle in Tennesee We got som leter from Ashby by the mail is all rit thare & Ky is all rit also voluntiering is going on rapidly thare they dont talk of resisting a draft but say they had rather voluntier & the work is going on rapidly I recon you think I cant think of any thing else to writ about but the war well so it is the war & the union first & then somthing else I say hurah for the union & the Constitution & if you have any men about thare that cant think of any thing else to talk of but nigar & dont like this nigar war tel them to go to grass & stem pusley[?] for they only want that for an excuse any way to keep from coming in the army We have plenty to eat & ware dont make your self uneasy about me for I am doing very well & shal endever to do the best I can wright me som good long leters & of late date as you can dont date them ahead but mail them imeditly after writen or not write til you can start them imeditly Our mess has bin redusd som Georg & Wesly has gon up the river John Falkner is dead John Clark has gon back to his old mess Benet Carey in bad helth & Martin Daley is not well Peter Leak is snug Henry Osk Sam & myself is all rit & Jack our cook he is allrit & we like him very well & he vows to stay with us he does all of our cooking & seams as one of us we give him his chois to join the nigar regment or stay with us & he said he did not want to leav us we pay him for his work & he picks up cloths to do him (writ to me what you think of my plans) the line above was rit after the leter was don you nead not take the babys likness as far as I am concernd I would love to se her & kiss her litle lip but her likness is mout like a heap of being her & I think money throad away your likness is like you but hers in a month wont be lik her abit Tel Elizabeth Prichett not to direct her leters to the 87th for they com here & we cant get them to him You must sell them catle the first good chance & dispose of the money to the best advanteg I wil draw som more money in a few days & wil send it the first chance at least we think we wil tho we may be put to moving & not draw in a month Let me no how we stand & what you think we nead don on the farm first you may I think get some rock hald & throde in a pile for to wall a well in the yard between the south west corner of the kitchen & the corner of the other house so we can run the water off of all the houses in it now I dont mean to give any body a big money job but if you can get som one to get up & hall rock for a sow or for a calf or som other litle porperty that you can spare well get it don the rock is the bigest job the well must be tolerble big one & beween 12 & 15 feet deep 15 is the best but if you think proper we wil wate til I com home gut I want you to learn whare you can get the best & cheapest lumber & nisest I dont want stuf I want som good oak flooring anough to lay about 3 x 18 feat bilding I wil say a thousand feet & the man that wil give you the best & cheapest lumber is the man I want to floor another house & paseg & porch I want it sawed & hald this fall & put in the shade & lade strat & in a pile to season the shade is the best (thick one inch long 9 feet) I have not desided what sort of a house or when we will build it but seasoned lumber is no drag & if I never live I wil it my children wil sea if Wheler wil saw it for $10 dollars & give good lumber if he will imploy him the money sead when he earns it Mack Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723
Vicksburg July 24 1863 Dear Lizzie I seat my self on a box to writ you a leter I rote you two or 3 at Jackson but but they never com any faster than I did infact I brot one on to this point my self & so you wil get this befour you get them or as soon any way this leavs me well & harty & I hope it may find you tho in the same condition I herd from you to day Wesly Meadors rote to Lieutenant Meadors to tel me you was well the leter came by hand & so it came quicker than I can get them mabe tho things wil be don up quicker than they have bin for som time well I am seated by a candle in my tent on a box on the bank of the river just belo the edg of the City of Vicksburg in the County of Waren in the State of Missisippi We left Jackson on the 20th inst and the first days march brot us to Bamon; 14 milds from Jackson we campt in a beautiful grove & of corse tierd we lay down & slept sound til 3 o clock when all was roused up & evry thing made redy to start that morning I got up with the colick & couldent eat any thing & I dident get in ranks but puterd along after the regment all day & don tolerble well til nearly night & a heavy blow cam up & I stopt in a house with severl other of our boys who had got behind & the division marcht on & got som 5 milds a head of us so after the rain was over we walked on til dark thru the water nearly knee deep in sever plases in the black river catains[?] & we stopt som two milds behing the division in an old house & slept til morning that morning found me som what stif & soar but we pusht on & get up with the regment just as they was starting but being with out brakfast I never marcht more than half a mile with them til I stopt & got my brakfast & rested a while the diarea tuck hold of me about the same time & so I did not go no faster than I felt lik I got up tho with the regment by 12 o clk & kept along with them til we got to this plase but I was tird down & wore out & I was not by my self for thare was severl behind me & dident cech up til we got to camp but one days rest makes me all rit except my legs is a litle soar I expect we wil rest a while now & thare is no teling whare we wil go [on the reverse] July the 25th 1863 this is a beautiful morning & I am well as comon we are not fixt up permanetly here yet I dont no whether we wil stay here yet or not thare is som talk of leaving ( severl plases talkt of ) thare is thousands of troops going down the river I gess they are going around to Mobeal Thare is som troops oderd to Memphis & som to Arkansas & som mabe oderd to Tennsee to help Rosecrains thare is a generl stir among the troops all is lif & we are crownd with victorys that makes the Rebels trimble & makes us all rejoice the rebels in this contry oans to be whipt & thare is no armd forse in this part of any consequence & you sea his army whipt & driven as if shaken by a mity wind read of the batle if you can get hold of a paper & you wil read of the bigest batle ever fought on this continent look at Generl Prises army in Ark & you sea him whipt & sent to ramble in the wilderness afrade to sho him self to any thing lik his equal numbers now look back to 32000 rebels perold at this plaxe & sent by ones & twoes to there homes the the worst whipt boys you ever sean half of then ¦¦¦¦ to be concerd they go home whipt & thare influince wil do more to put down the rebelion than anything don in the hole war I wil quit now by saying that I sea a brit prospect of peace at som perod not far distance the goverment is caling for Reglars & som of our regment has joind them thare is 400 dollars oferd to us to join them they wil not get many Hamilton boys Wel Lizzie I no you sea a hard time you are botherd a goodeal have a heap to do & a hard ro to hoe but you must have pashence & not get out of hart dont work to hard & try only to take car of what you have got give George the best education you can & make him work bont abuse him but talk to him & alow him to have som play things but not alow him to play to long tel him I want him to try to make a nice industerous smart man & not to be lazy dont tel him he is lazy but incureg corect & up hold him do it in a mild easey & good umerd maner lern him to be ser¦d corect him in a firm maner & he wil obey you seak his love & try if you can to lern his early motives he may mak aman difernt from what you expect if he takes delit in any that wil lead him in a profitable busines & not erreligious incoureg him you must never get angry with him it would learn him to be fractious kis the baby & remember me Mack ___________________________ Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723
McAllister A. Hooker was a private in Company A of the87 Illinois Mounted Infantry. He was born 01/10/1838 about 20 miles from Henderson,in Henderson County, Kentucky to Robert Hooker and Levicey Harmon. Levicey was the widow of Jonathan Ashby andthe second wife of Robert Hooker. McAllister therefore had half brothers and sisters of both his motherand father. He moved with his naturalsisters to near McLeansboro in Hamilton County, Illinois where he marriedElizabeth Jane Cottingham on 01/13/1858, shortly before the outbreak of theCivil War. He volunteered with others from the county andserved in Company A, Eighty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry. At the time he volunteered his family hadalready begun with son George Lee Hooker, age 3, and the two month old childSarah. As a moderately literate anddedicated family man, he regularly wrote to his wife "Lizzie", whoresided outside McLeansboro, with his two young children. Late in the war he maintained the day book. I am going to post to the list some of his letters you should watch for any mention he may have made of any of your ancestors Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723