Notes:
Letter from Thomas Christmas O'Mary to his wife,
Elizabeth Arnold O'Mary of Carroll County,
Georgia. Thomas is in the Georgia 56th regiment.
Letter:
Mississippi Meridian P.O. Laudadil Co
Jan. 3rd 1863
Dear wife
I seat my self to let you no that I am wel as common hoping those lines may
find you and family enjoying the same blessing. I must tel you what the good
ladys and sitizens done for us. when we got to Demopolus, Maringo Co, Ala on
the Tombigba river. they had a large dinner fixed for us. they had kept it up
every day feeding our division as they passed. ____ the ladys used great
politeness with us. they treated us with as much respect as they did the
largest officiers we had. we came 114 miles on steamboat. I had a pleasant
ride. we have rasions cooked to move again. I think we will go to Jackson. I
want youto rite to me. I want to hear from you verry bad. direct your letter to
Meridian P.O. Mississippi. I want to see you and the children as bad as I ever
did in my life. I hope I may get a letter from you in a short tim. I think many
times of the happy hours I have spent at home with you and the children. Toung
can not express the enjoyments of home. I hope I may appreciate the blessings
of home. I have seen many things and a great deal of rich country but nothing
like home. I wish I could send you some sugar and syrup. their is abundance of
it here. I want to hear how you are a geting a long. I am sorry that you have
such a hard time. I hope I may be at home shortly to make your time easy. we
must be reconciled to the wil of God. we must endure all that is put upon us. I
want us all to try to do rite. instruct the children to do rite. I hope that
God wil bless us and bring us together again in peace and happiness to dwell
together as long as we live. I hope the time may hasten on when war shal seace
and no more lives be lost and no blood be shed. I must close. rite often.
nothing more only remain your hustband until death.
T.C. Omary