Louisa married Richard Echols after the death of her husband, Aaron Sewell.
State of Georgia} To any Judge of the Superior Court, Justice of the Chattooga County} Inferior Court, Justice of the Peace or Minister of the Gospel. You are hereby authorized to join Richard Echols and Louisa Sewell in the Holy state of Matrimony according to the laws of this state if they are such persons as are by law authorized to marry and for so doing this shall be your license. Given under my hand and official seal this 22nd day of Jan'y 1867.
Sam'l Harrison (seal) Ordy
I hereby certify that on the 22nd day of January 1867, Richard Echols and Louisa Sewell were lawfully joined in the Holy State of Matrimony by me.
John M. Baker, J.P.
***
JOHN DORSETT
CENSUS 1850 - Chattooga County, Georgia
229-Dorset, John 32m S.C.
Harriet 25f
Louisa 8f
Elizabeth 6f
Ellen 4f
James lm.
Information on Louisa's family can be found on this website . It contains letters written by her husband while he served in the Civil War.(Ancestry.com --LANCASTER, SEWELL and Related Families)
She was the daughter of John R. Dorsett and Harriett Harlow and the granddaughter of Elijah and Anna Richardson Dorsett of Chattooga County, GA
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gachatto/aaronletter1.htm
April 4 [?] 1862
Dear Aron
I seet myself to let you know I am well the rest is well except sis she has ben verry sick but is geting well I receive the money you sent by Mr Hall I had rather it would have bin you com than the money if it had ben ten times as much I want you to come and see me if there be any chance for you to get of[f] in the evening I walk in the Parza [?] and look for you Aron
I send l lofe of bredd 6 cake some butter by mr o Ganes, 2 shirst by Mr Hall I want you to write if you get them I had not time to cook any mor I will try to do better nextime I want you to write how you are satisfide and what you have to eat wite? and all the news I will make your drawers and send them first chance I receive your letter dated Mar 1
Aron I cant think of mutch to write this time I think of your every hour in the day I had rather see you than any person in this world how can I enjoy myself when I have such a trobbel to bare i never will forget your parting words, write often I would like to hear frome you every day so I must close excuse this [illegible] letter I will try and do better the next. I remain your tru friend till death
From L F S to A M Sewell
P S
Sis and Ellen sent there best love and respects to you and all of the Boys and especiely Taf and little Billy
Mr Dear I will say a few words this morning I receive a letter for you las night I was more than glad to hear form you while I was redind it I thought my heart would burst I cant wright as I wish to I cant expres my felling this moring I am riting by candlelight I haft to send your shirts to Mr. Hill this morning and the letter Cicro send one with mine i want you to wright as soon as you get this number your letters so I will know when get all
Chattooga Georgia Apr the 20 1862
Dear Aron
I seat my self to answer you kind and affectionate letter I receive you letter the 15 I would have answer it sooner but I heard you was gone to Coreinth I heard last eveing you was back at Knoxville these lines leave we well I hope will come to hand in due time and find you enjoying the same blessing you requested me to tell you if John Baker got well or not I am sorry to tell you he died the last of March I hope is gone to that happy home above where peace is forever
Aron I like your letters very well I wish I could receive one every day you must write every opertunity I would write ofterner but I dont know when to write you travel About so mutch I heare one day you are at one place and the nex on you way somethere else. But I dont care were you go so you get back to me safe agan
Aron you are not our of my mind three moments at a time it was a great Consolation to me when I read your second letter You said if met no more on earth we would meet in heaven yes in that bright world above and prase god forever you said you look at my likeny every day and shed tears
I cant tell you the times I look at yours tears tears floow from my eyes now I heare Jame cheek and Marget and Martha hawkins a sin[g]ing Cisero has just come he will help them I wish you was here to sing I have been to preaching once since you left at oak hill Mr Low preach it rain today and Mr Purcell never come to prech at Mrs Martin I wish you were here to go to church with me when I go I am lonesome all the time.
My dear
I remember you in my praers night and morning I hope you dont forget to pray for your self you Country and yor true and affectionate wife at home you must read the scripture and see for your self. your Mothers family is well
Aron Mr Sturtivan want to buy your saddle he come to pa and he wouldent Sell and then he come to me and told him I could not sell it with out your consent and you did not leave it in my care I asked Cisero if you told him to sell it he said not and told to write to you abut it I want you to write if are willing for it to be sold or not and what you w ill take for it
Aron I want you to take as good care of your self as you can and thing you will get back home I think you will I have not got my things at home yet it rins so mutch and keep the river past fordind that pa cant go he would to as soon as the water falls he is about half done plantin the ground Keep so wett he cant plant
Uncle Sion is going back to the company james and Ben Cheek is at [illegible] yet Aron you said you wanted me to write the condition of my health and we promis to keep no secrets I wont keep no secret from you and to remember the pleaure we seen at the old hut I never can forget it I hope we will enjoy ourselves again I must close by requesting you to write soon and often and if you want me to make you any close Pa and all the rest send there love to you pa said you must write often I Remain your true and sicer Wife Lou F Sewell to Aron M. Sewell
***
March 1864 - Letter from Aaron Sewell to his wife, Louisa:
Lou I hope you have purchased that land & got the title if you hant you had better do so not withstanding it maint be worth mutch more than the mair & mule but the money aint mutch account So take the land & get the title & bonds & see that they are all rite & that there is no exicutions againt the land tell Pa to Pay all & ill Pay him & pay it now before the first of April For the money will have to be funded then & you just pay if of[f]
page three
Louisa This is monday eaving Rather cloudy & coole I have just returned from the 19th Ark I lerned there from one of your uncles mess mates & all so from the sergeon that your Uncle Cit is dead he died the 14th of Feby he was taken v rry sudent He was taken the 10th and died 14th from the best information that I could get - & Mr. Lane his mess mate told me he was with him when he was taken & waited on him until he died & that everything was done for him that could be & that the doctors tride to save him but failed he was taken with the side Pluracy & it termined the [illegible] Pnesemony
He was burried neatly. he was buried at Tunnell Hill in the soldiers burying ground his name was Registered on the headboard he was burried not far from the town of tunnell hill
***
LAST LETTER
Line of Battle
May 11 1864 [illegible]
My Dear Affectionate Wife
It is with the upmost degree of respect that I address you at this time to Let you know that I am well at present Louisa not withstanding I chance to write to you I fear at the same time that you will never get the newes But Still I hope Some friend may chance to pass around your way & carry this thro to you I wrote you a Letter the 3 of this month & sent it my mail I do hope & trust you have Reed it before now We came to our Brest work the 7th I still Remain in them yet There has been fighting more or less Ever since Saturday the 7th & This is Wednesday the 11th..
Lou I hope you will not be discorra get but bare your troubles with as mutch fortitude as you can puting all you trust in god Who is our only Refuge he will protect us if We will put our trust in him & give our all up to him trusting in him that we may have pease to our soles giving thanks all ways to him
[very faded] Lou We havent [illegible] engaged yet in the fight but don't know how soon [illegible] Lou the mail Came in just now & parks [illegible] got a letter wrote 8 in st Oh that it could have been me that could have get one for I never thought it so long to wait for a Letter yet so send me one if you can Mr Gilbert Looked for his wife a good while & said you ware comming with her & I agreed to that but if you started I hope you got back home save agan I certainly will get a letter tomorrow that has been the way for too weeks Parke [illegible] some newes about what was going on in our county & what had transpired [illegible] the Thiefth & [illegible] ill not write any thing about that
Louisa it seames that I can all most hear our preares assending up for me Oh the,many [illegible] hearts at home now for Son Brother Father, & Husband thats in this army now but god will same all who will prase him & make [illegible] with him
Good by yours affectionately, A M Sewell
State of Georgia} To any Judge of the Superior Court, Justice of the Chattooga County} Inferior Court, Justice of the Peace or Minister of the Gospel. You are hereby authorized to join Richard Echols and Louisa Sewell in the Holy state of Matrimony according to the laws of this state if they are such persons as are by law authorized to marry and for so doing this shall be your license. Given under my hand and official seal this 22nd day of Jan'y 1867.
Sam'l Harrison (seal) Ordy
I hereby certify that on the 22nd day of January 1867, Richard Echols and Louisa Sewell were lawfully joined in the Holy State of Matrimony by me.
John M. Baker, J.P.
***
JOHN DORSETT
CENSUS 1850 - Chattooga County, Georgia
229-Dorset, John 32m S.C.
Harriet 25f
Louisa 8f
Elizabeth 6f
Ellen 4f
James lm.
Information on Louisa's family can be found on this website . It contains letters written by her husband while he served in the Civil War.(Ancestry.com --LANCASTER, SEWELL and Related Families)
She was the daughter of John R. Dorsett and Harriett Harlow and the granddaughter of Elijah and Anna Richardson Dorsett of Chattooga County, GA
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gachatto/aaronletter1.htm
April 4 [?] 1862
Dear Aron
I seet myself to let you know I am well the rest is well except sis she has ben verry sick but is geting well I receive the money you sent by Mr Hall I had rather it would have bin you com than the money if it had ben ten times as much I want you to come and see me if there be any chance for you to get of[f] in the evening I walk in the Parza [?] and look for you Aron
I send l lofe of bredd 6 cake some butter by mr o Ganes, 2 shirst by Mr Hall I want you to write if you get them I had not time to cook any mor I will try to do better nextime I want you to write how you are satisfide and what you have to eat wite? and all the news I will make your drawers and send them first chance I receive your letter dated Mar 1
Aron I cant think of mutch to write this time I think of your every hour in the day I had rather see you than any person in this world how can I enjoy myself when I have such a trobbel to bare i never will forget your parting words, write often I would like to hear frome you every day so I must close excuse this [illegible] letter I will try and do better the next. I remain your tru friend till death
From L F S to A M Sewell
P S
Sis and Ellen sent there best love and respects to you and all of the Boys and especiely Taf and little Billy
Mr Dear I will say a few words this morning I receive a letter for you las night I was more than glad to hear form you while I was redind it I thought my heart would burst I cant wright as I wish to I cant expres my felling this moring I am riting by candlelight I haft to send your shirts to Mr. Hill this morning and the letter Cicro send one with mine i want you to wright as soon as you get this number your letters so I will know when get all
Chattooga Georgia Apr the 20 1862
Dear Aron
I seat my self to answer you kind and affectionate letter I receive you letter the 15 I would have answer it sooner but I heard you was gone to Coreinth I heard last eveing you was back at Knoxville these lines leave we well I hope will come to hand in due time and find you enjoying the same blessing you requested me to tell you if John Baker got well or not I am sorry to tell you he died the last of March I hope is gone to that happy home above where peace is forever
Aron I like your letters very well I wish I could receive one every day you must write every opertunity I would write ofterner but I dont know when to write you travel About so mutch I heare one day you are at one place and the nex on you way somethere else. But I dont care were you go so you get back to me safe agan
Aron you are not our of my mind three moments at a time it was a great Consolation to me when I read your second letter You said if met no more on earth we would meet in heaven yes in that bright world above and prase god forever you said you look at my likeny every day and shed tears
I cant tell you the times I look at yours tears tears floow from my eyes now I heare Jame cheek and Marget and Martha hawkins a sin[g]ing Cisero has just come he will help them I wish you was here to sing I have been to preaching once since you left at oak hill Mr Low preach it rain today and Mr Purcell never come to prech at Mrs Martin I wish you were here to go to church with me when I go I am lonesome all the time.
My dear
I remember you in my praers night and morning I hope you dont forget to pray for your self you Country and yor true and affectionate wife at home you must read the scripture and see for your self. your Mothers family is well
Aron Mr Sturtivan want to buy your saddle he come to pa and he wouldent Sell and then he come to me and told him I could not sell it with out your consent and you did not leave it in my care I asked Cisero if you told him to sell it he said not and told to write to you abut it I want you to write if are willing for it to be sold or not and what you w ill take for it
Aron I want you to take as good care of your self as you can and thing you will get back home I think you will I have not got my things at home yet it rins so mutch and keep the river past fordind that pa cant go he would to as soon as the water falls he is about half done plantin the ground Keep so wett he cant plant
Uncle Sion is going back to the company james and Ben Cheek is at [illegible] yet Aron you said you wanted me to write the condition of my health and we promis to keep no secrets I wont keep no secret from you and to remember the pleaure we seen at the old hut I never can forget it I hope we will enjoy ourselves again I must close by requesting you to write soon and often and if you want me to make you any close Pa and all the rest send there love to you pa said you must write often I Remain your true and sicer Wife Lou F Sewell to Aron M. Sewell
***
March 1864 - Letter from Aaron Sewell to his wife, Louisa:
Lou I hope you have purchased that land & got the title if you hant you had better do so not withstanding it maint be worth mutch more than the mair & mule but the money aint mutch account So take the land & get the title & bonds & see that they are all rite & that there is no exicutions againt the land tell Pa to Pay all & ill Pay him & pay it now before the first of April For the money will have to be funded then & you just pay if of[f]
page three
Louisa This is monday eaving Rather cloudy & coole I have just returned from the 19th Ark I lerned there from one of your uncles mess mates & all so from the sergeon that your Uncle Cit is dead he died the 14th of Feby he was taken v rry sudent He was taken the 10th and died 14th from the best information that I could get - & Mr. Lane his mess mate told me he was with him when he was taken & waited on him until he died & that everything was done for him that could be & that the doctors tride to save him but failed he was taken with the side Pluracy & it termined the [illegible] Pnesemony
He was burried neatly. he was buried at Tunnell Hill in the soldiers burying ground his name was Registered on the headboard he was burried not far from the town of tunnell hill
***
LAST LETTER
Line of Battle
May 11 1864 [illegible]
My Dear Affectionate Wife
It is with the upmost degree of respect that I address you at this time to Let you know that I am well at present Louisa not withstanding I chance to write to you I fear at the same time that you will never get the newes But Still I hope Some friend may chance to pass around your way & carry this thro to you I wrote you a Letter the 3 of this month & sent it my mail I do hope & trust you have Reed it before now We came to our Brest work the 7th I still Remain in them yet There has been fighting more or less Ever since Saturday the 7th & This is Wednesday the 11th..
Lou I hope you will not be discorra get but bare your troubles with as mutch fortitude as you can puting all you trust in god Who is our only Refuge he will protect us if We will put our trust in him & give our all up to him trusting in him that we may have pease to our soles giving thanks all ways to him
[very faded] Lou We havent [illegible] engaged yet in the fight but don't know how soon [illegible] Lou the mail Came in just now & parks [illegible] got a letter wrote 8 in st Oh that it could have been me that could have get one for I never thought it so long to wait for a Letter yet so send me one if you can Mr Gilbert Looked for his wife a good while & said you ware comming with her & I agreed to that but if you started I hope you got back home save agan I certainly will get a letter tomorrow that has been the way for too weeks Parke [illegible] some newes about what was going on in our county & what had transpired [illegible] the Thiefth & [illegible] ill not write any thing about that
Louisa it seames that I can all most hear our preares assending up for me Oh the,many [illegible] hearts at home now for Son Brother Father, & Husband thats in this army now but god will same all who will prase him & make [illegible] with him
Good by yours affectionately, A M Sewell
Louisa married Richard Echols after the death of her husband, Aaron Sewell.
State of Georgia} To any Judge of the Superior Court, Justice of the Chattooga County} Inferior Court, Justice of the Peace or Minister of the Gospel. You are hereby authorized to join Richard Echols and Louisa Sewell in the Holy state of Matrimony according to the laws of this state if they are such persons as are by law authorized to marry and for so doing this shall be your license. Given under my hand and official seal this 22nd day of Jan'y 1867.
Sam'l Harrison (seal) Ordy
I hereby certify that on the 22nd day of January 1867, Richard Echols and Louisa Sewell were lawfully joined in the Holy State of Matrimony by me.
John M. Baker, J.P.
***
JOHN DORSETT
CENSUS 1850 - Chattooga County, Georgia
229-Dorset, John 32m S.C.
Harriet 25f
Louisa 8f
Elizabeth 6f
Ellen 4f
James lm.
Information on Louisa's family can be found on this website . It contains letters written by her husband while he served in the Civil War.(Ancestry.com --LANCASTER, SEWELL and Related Families)
She was the daughter of John R. Dorsett and Harriett Harlow and the granddaughter of Elijah and Anna Richardson Dorsett of Chattooga County, GA
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gachatto/aaronletter1.htm
April 4 [?] 1862
Dear Aron
I seet myself to let you know I am well the rest is well except sis she has ben verry sick but is geting well I receive the money you sent by Mr Hall I had rather it would have bin you com than the money if it had ben ten times as much I want you to come and see me if there be any chance for you to get of[f] in the evening I walk in the Parza [?] and look for you Aron
I send l lofe of bredd 6 cake some butter by mr o Ganes, 2 shirst by Mr Hall I want you to write if you get them I had not time to cook any mor I will try to do better nextime I want you to write how you are satisfide and what you have to eat wite? and all the news I will make your drawers and send them first chance I receive your letter dated Mar 1
Aron I cant think of mutch to write this time I think of your every hour in the day I had rather see you than any person in this world how can I enjoy myself when I have such a trobbel to bare i never will forget your parting words, write often I would like to hear frome you every day so I must close excuse this [illegible] letter I will try and do better the next. I remain your tru friend till death
From L F S to A M Sewell
P S
Sis and Ellen sent there best love and respects to you and all of the Boys and especiely Taf and little Billy
Mr Dear I will say a few words this morning I receive a letter for you las night I was more than glad to hear form you while I was redind it I thought my heart would burst I cant wright as I wish to I cant expres my felling this moring I am riting by candlelight I haft to send your shirts to Mr. Hill this morning and the letter Cicro send one with mine i want you to wright as soon as you get this number your letters so I will know when get all
Chattooga Georgia Apr the 20 1862
Dear Aron
I seat my self to answer you kind and affectionate letter I receive you letter the 15 I would have answer it sooner but I heard you was gone to Coreinth I heard last eveing you was back at Knoxville these lines leave we well I hope will come to hand in due time and find you enjoying the same blessing you requested me to tell you if John Baker got well or not I am sorry to tell you he died the last of March I hope is gone to that happy home above where peace is forever
Aron I like your letters very well I wish I could receive one every day you must write every opertunity I would write ofterner but I dont know when to write you travel About so mutch I heare one day you are at one place and the nex on you way somethere else. But I dont care were you go so you get back to me safe agan
Aron you are not our of my mind three moments at a time it was a great Consolation to me when I read your second letter You said if met no more on earth we would meet in heaven yes in that bright world above and prase god forever you said you look at my likeny every day and shed tears
I cant tell you the times I look at yours tears tears floow from my eyes now I heare Jame cheek and Marget and Martha hawkins a sin[g]ing Cisero has just come he will help them I wish you was here to sing I have been to preaching once since you left at oak hill Mr Low preach it rain today and Mr Purcell never come to prech at Mrs Martin I wish you were here to go to church with me when I go I am lonesome all the time.
My dear
I remember you in my praers night and morning I hope you dont forget to pray for your self you Country and yor true and affectionate wife at home you must read the scripture and see for your self. your Mothers family is well
Aron Mr Sturtivan want to buy your saddle he come to pa and he wouldent Sell and then he come to me and told him I could not sell it with out your consent and you did not leave it in my care I asked Cisero if you told him to sell it he said not and told to write to you abut it I want you to write if are willing for it to be sold or not and what you w ill take for it
Aron I want you to take as good care of your self as you can and thing you will get back home I think you will I have not got my things at home yet it rins so mutch and keep the river past fordind that pa cant go he would to as soon as the water falls he is about half done plantin the ground Keep so wett he cant plant
Uncle Sion is going back to the company james and Ben Cheek is at [illegible] yet Aron you said you wanted me to write the condition of my health and we promis to keep no secrets I wont keep no secret from you and to remember the pleaure we seen at the old hut I never can forget it I hope we will enjoy ourselves again I must close by requesting you to write soon and often and if you want me to make you any close Pa and all the rest send there love to you pa said you must write often I Remain your true and sicer Wife Lou F Sewell to Aron M. Sewell
***
March 1864 - Letter from Aaron Sewell to his wife, Louisa:
Lou I hope you have purchased that land & got the title if you hant you had better do so not withstanding it maint be worth mutch more than the mair & mule but the money aint mutch account So take the land & get the title & bonds & see that they are all rite & that there is no exicutions againt the land tell Pa to Pay all & ill Pay him & pay it now before the first of April For the money will have to be funded then & you just pay if of[f]
page three
Louisa This is monday eaving Rather cloudy & coole I have just returned from the 19th Ark I lerned there from one of your uncles mess mates & all so from the sergeon that your Uncle Cit is dead he died the 14th of Feby he was taken v rry sudent He was taken the 10th and died 14th from the best information that I could get - & Mr. Lane his mess mate told me he was with him when he was taken & waited on him until he died & that everything was done for him that could be & that the doctors tride to save him but failed he was taken with the side Pluracy & it termined the [illegible] Pnesemony
He was burried neatly. he was buried at Tunnell Hill in the soldiers burying ground his name was Registered on the headboard he was burried not far from the town of tunnell hill
***
LAST LETTER
Line of Battle
May 11 1864 [illegible]
My Dear Affectionate Wife
It is with the upmost degree of respect that I address you at this time to Let you know that I am well at present Louisa not withstanding I chance to write to you I fear at the same time that you will never get the newes But Still I hope Some friend may chance to pass around your way & carry this thro to you I wrote you a Letter the 3 of this month & sent it my mail I do hope & trust you have Reed it before now We came to our Brest work the 7th I still Remain in them yet There has been fighting more or less Ever since Saturday the 7th & This is Wednesday the 11th..
Lou I hope you will not be discorra get but bare your troubles with as mutch fortitude as you can puting all you trust in god Who is our only Refuge he will protect us if We will put our trust in him & give our all up to him trusting in him that we may have pease to our soles giving thanks all ways to him
[very faded] Lou We havent [illegible] engaged yet in the fight but don't know how soon [illegible] Lou the mail Came in just now & parks [illegible] got a letter wrote 8 in st Oh that it could have been me that could have get one for I never thought it so long to wait for a Letter yet so send me one if you can Mr Gilbert Looked for his wife a good while & said you ware comming with her & I agreed to that but if you started I hope you got back home save agan I certainly will get a letter tomorrow that has been the way for too weeks Parke [illegible] some newes about what was going on in our county & what had transpired [illegible] the Thiefth & [illegible] ill not write any thing about that
Louisa it seames that I can all most hear our preares assending up for me Oh the,many [illegible] hearts at home now for Son Brother Father, & Husband thats in this army now but god will same all who will prase him & make [illegible] with him
Good by yours affectionately, A M Sewell
State of Georgia} To any Judge of the Superior Court, Justice of the Chattooga County} Inferior Court, Justice of the Peace or Minister of the Gospel. You are hereby authorized to join Richard Echols and Louisa Sewell in the Holy state of Matrimony according to the laws of this state if they are such persons as are by law authorized to marry and for so doing this shall be your license. Given under my hand and official seal this 22nd day of Jan'y 1867.
Sam'l Harrison (seal) Ordy
I hereby certify that on the 22nd day of January 1867, Richard Echols and Louisa Sewell were lawfully joined in the Holy State of Matrimony by me.
John M. Baker, J.P.
***
JOHN DORSETT
CENSUS 1850 - Chattooga County, Georgia
229-Dorset, John 32m S.C.
Harriet 25f
Louisa 8f
Elizabeth 6f
Ellen 4f
James lm.
Information on Louisa's family can be found on this website . It contains letters written by her husband while he served in the Civil War.(Ancestry.com --LANCASTER, SEWELL and Related Families)
She was the daughter of John R. Dorsett and Harriett Harlow and the granddaughter of Elijah and Anna Richardson Dorsett of Chattooga County, GA
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gachatto/aaronletter1.htm
April 4 [?] 1862
Dear Aron
I seet myself to let you know I am well the rest is well except sis she has ben verry sick but is geting well I receive the money you sent by Mr Hall I had rather it would have bin you com than the money if it had ben ten times as much I want you to come and see me if there be any chance for you to get of[f] in the evening I walk in the Parza [?] and look for you Aron
I send l lofe of bredd 6 cake some butter by mr o Ganes, 2 shirst by Mr Hall I want you to write if you get them I had not time to cook any mor I will try to do better nextime I want you to write how you are satisfide and what you have to eat wite? and all the news I will make your drawers and send them first chance I receive your letter dated Mar 1
Aron I cant think of mutch to write this time I think of your every hour in the day I had rather see you than any person in this world how can I enjoy myself when I have such a trobbel to bare i never will forget your parting words, write often I would like to hear frome you every day so I must close excuse this [illegible] letter I will try and do better the next. I remain your tru friend till death
From L F S to A M Sewell
P S
Sis and Ellen sent there best love and respects to you and all of the Boys and especiely Taf and little Billy
Mr Dear I will say a few words this morning I receive a letter for you las night I was more than glad to hear form you while I was redind it I thought my heart would burst I cant wright as I wish to I cant expres my felling this moring I am riting by candlelight I haft to send your shirts to Mr. Hill this morning and the letter Cicro send one with mine i want you to wright as soon as you get this number your letters so I will know when get all
Chattooga Georgia Apr the 20 1862
Dear Aron
I seat my self to answer you kind and affectionate letter I receive you letter the 15 I would have answer it sooner but I heard you was gone to Coreinth I heard last eveing you was back at Knoxville these lines leave we well I hope will come to hand in due time and find you enjoying the same blessing you requested me to tell you if John Baker got well or not I am sorry to tell you he died the last of March I hope is gone to that happy home above where peace is forever
Aron I like your letters very well I wish I could receive one every day you must write every opertunity I would write ofterner but I dont know when to write you travel About so mutch I heare one day you are at one place and the nex on you way somethere else. But I dont care were you go so you get back to me safe agan
Aron you are not our of my mind three moments at a time it was a great Consolation to me when I read your second letter You said if met no more on earth we would meet in heaven yes in that bright world above and prase god forever you said you look at my likeny every day and shed tears
I cant tell you the times I look at yours tears tears floow from my eyes now I heare Jame cheek and Marget and Martha hawkins a sin[g]ing Cisero has just come he will help them I wish you was here to sing I have been to preaching once since you left at oak hill Mr Low preach it rain today and Mr Purcell never come to prech at Mrs Martin I wish you were here to go to church with me when I go I am lonesome all the time.
My dear
I remember you in my praers night and morning I hope you dont forget to pray for your self you Country and yor true and affectionate wife at home you must read the scripture and see for your self. your Mothers family is well
Aron Mr Sturtivan want to buy your saddle he come to pa and he wouldent Sell and then he come to me and told him I could not sell it with out your consent and you did not leave it in my care I asked Cisero if you told him to sell it he said not and told to write to you abut it I want you to write if are willing for it to be sold or not and what you w ill take for it
Aron I want you to take as good care of your self as you can and thing you will get back home I think you will I have not got my things at home yet it rins so mutch and keep the river past fordind that pa cant go he would to as soon as the water falls he is about half done plantin the ground Keep so wett he cant plant
Uncle Sion is going back to the company james and Ben Cheek is at [illegible] yet Aron you said you wanted me to write the condition of my health and we promis to keep no secrets I wont keep no secret from you and to remember the pleaure we seen at the old hut I never can forget it I hope we will enjoy ourselves again I must close by requesting you to write soon and often and if you want me to make you any close Pa and all the rest send there love to you pa said you must write often I Remain your true and sicer Wife Lou F Sewell to Aron M. Sewell
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March 1864 - Letter from Aaron Sewell to his wife, Louisa:
Lou I hope you have purchased that land & got the title if you hant you had better do so not withstanding it maint be worth mutch more than the mair & mule but the money aint mutch account So take the land & get the title & bonds & see that they are all rite & that there is no exicutions againt the land tell Pa to Pay all & ill Pay him & pay it now before the first of April For the money will have to be funded then & you just pay if of[f]
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Louisa This is monday eaving Rather cloudy & coole I have just returned from the 19th Ark I lerned there from one of your uncles mess mates & all so from the sergeon that your Uncle Cit is dead he died the 14th of Feby he was taken v rry sudent He was taken the 10th and died 14th from the best information that I could get - & Mr. Lane his mess mate told me he was with him when he was taken & waited on him until he died & that everything was done for him that could be & that the doctors tride to save him but failed he was taken with the side Pluracy & it termined the [illegible] Pnesemony
He was burried neatly. he was buried at Tunnell Hill in the soldiers burying ground his name was Registered on the headboard he was burried not far from the town of tunnell hill
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LAST LETTER
Line of Battle
May 11 1864 [illegible]
My Dear Affectionate Wife
It is with the upmost degree of respect that I address you at this time to Let you know that I am well at present Louisa not withstanding I chance to write to you I fear at the same time that you will never get the newes But Still I hope Some friend may chance to pass around your way & carry this thro to you I wrote you a Letter the 3 of this month & sent it my mail I do hope & trust you have Reed it before now We came to our Brest work the 7th I still Remain in them yet There has been fighting more or less Ever since Saturday the 7th & This is Wednesday the 11th..
Lou I hope you will not be discorra get but bare your troubles with as mutch fortitude as you can puting all you trust in god Who is our only Refuge he will protect us if We will put our trust in him & give our all up to him trusting in him that we may have pease to our soles giving thanks all ways to him
[very faded] Lou We havent [illegible] engaged yet in the fight but don't know how soon [illegible] Lou the mail Came in just now & parks [illegible] got a letter wrote 8 in st Oh that it could have been me that could have get one for I never thought it so long to wait for a Letter yet so send me one if you can Mr Gilbert Looked for his wife a good while & said you ware comming with her & I agreed to that but if you started I hope you got back home save agan I certainly will get a letter tomorrow that has been the way for too weeks Parke [illegible] some newes about what was going on in our county & what had transpired [illegible] the Thiefth & [illegible] ill not write any thing about that
Louisa it seames that I can all most hear our preares assending up for me Oh the,many [illegible] hearts at home now for Son Brother Father, & Husband thats in this army now but god will same all who will prase him & make [illegible] with him
Good by yours affectionately, A M Sewell
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