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Note: were the three oldest children of Laban and Rebecca: Griffin, GA Sept 10th 1864 Mrs. S.A. Odom Dear Sister, The present affords me the opportunity to drop you a fiew lines to let you no that I am well and I hope this may find you and all the family the same. I haven't any news to rite only the retreat we had. I never want to get on another for we had a time of it. We would march day and night sometimes through the mud and water. We marched 75 miles in 3 days and 2 nights. We got plenty to eat on the way. Some of the nicest people I ever saw. We are campt in 2 miles of Griffin. It is a beautiful town. It is 50 miles above Macon. I have written to you before but I don't recon you got my letters. Mr. Hurst arrived safe. Tell Elmina I got my money and cakes. I tell you they was good. I do not no how long we will stay here so you need not rite until you hear from me again and when you rite, rite a long letter and rite all the news. Tell Jane and Bud and Ben they must rite to me. Tell them to be good boys. I have quit all of my badness. Laban Ellison and his father has gone to the hospital. I hope htat I shall soon be home with you all again. I must close by saying I remain your brother F.J. Oglesby Give my love to all the Girls. Information from Sheryl Seymour lists husband as John Reddick. A few lines of Laban's letter to his wife, dated December 18, 1862. It was written from a Camp near Fredericksburg, Virginia. At the end of his letter, Laban writes: "a fiew lines to Elmina. Tell her that I am not afraid of her riding my colt to death unless she takes a notion to go to see Wesley on the coast. And then she would be in such a hurry to get there that she might hurt him. And tell her to be ready to marry time I come home, and kill the fat calf and the pig and the old yellow hen and make a powerful soup for that is what I love, and that will be enough."
Note: letters written to Sarah Anne Rebecca from F.J.Oglesby. Jane, Bud and Ben
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