In a message dated 11/15/2002 7:06:54 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 07:28:51 EST > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Subject: I Wrote You Word > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I have a copy of the A.E. Howard book containing the letters of John L. > Holt. > The book is titled: I Wrote You Word. That was an expression that John > L. > Holt uses in several of the letters when he is asking his wife Ellen to > recall something from a previous letter. Even if this family is not yours > the book gives you a good first hand account of what it was like in the > Confederate Army up until Gettysburg. John L. Holt was killed at > Gettysburg > and the last letter in the book is written only days before the battle. I > was > really surprised at how open the letters are about where they are camped, > where they were marching to, etc. I am sure in later wars such letters > would > have been heavily censured. John L. Holt is my 2nd cousin and was closely > connected to my Clark family of Charlotte County. Dear Fellow Researcher: My husband's father was captured at Gettysburg on Jul 3 the last day of the war. I would ve very interested in receiving a copy of this book. My address is: Carolann St. John 1105 Edgewater Drive Naperville IL 60540-7404 I would like to reimburse you for your expenses for coping and mailing if you would let me know. Kindly, Carolann St. John [email protected] www.stantonstjohn.net