Conversing With the Enemy
Henry Erisman written to his brother, 1862
This excerpt has been used with the permission of "The Valley of the Shadow"
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/cwletters.html
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| "We are now lying at Battle Creek and we got Picketing about 2 miles from Camp Every three days where we can have a Chat with the Rebels whenever we feel like it. I had a talk with a fellow t hat was Born and Raised in Columbia. he was Raised by a man by the name of Mullisson (Jim Mullisson's Father). he's a Tinker by trade--learned his trade in Columbia and left there time of the Cholera and got to Texas some how. there he got married and whe n they Commenced to Enlist there for the Rebel Army, he joined the 2nd Texas Regt. I asked him why he didnt come on our side to fight he said he had too much Proper ty in Texas for that. I asked him his name but he wouldnt tell it. he was Purty well acquainted in Lancaster. Also he Asked me all about John Hoover, Henry Hampshreville & Andy Hart. He said he Played many a game of Ten Pins with them but he didnt recollect you nor Morney Rodgers. I guess you must have been in Philadelphia at the time he was in with them fellows. we Talked for about 1 hour and a half when they was Relieved. after he was Relieved he told me to take care of myself and hoped that we might have a drink together and he left."
Henry Erisman written to his brother, 1862
This excerpt has been used with the permission of "The Valley of the Shadow" http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/cwletters.html
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