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:
near Dalton Georgia
April the 20th 1864
I recd your letter this morning. I was glad to hear that you was all wel. I
feel verry wel today. i am glad to hear that your wheat is coming out. I dont
no how you are to get it cut. All furlows are stopped for a while. You said
something about riting to Col. Watkins. Wait a while. If I dont get to come
home, you can rite in time to him before your wheat gets ripe. I hope that he
wil let me come to cut it for you if I live. You said you could send Suda to
school. I would like for her to go if she could. If you send her, have it in
the bargain to take the kind of money that we have for inst. the Confederate
ishew. If I can draw, I wil send my money home so you can pay her schooling
monthly. If I outlive the war, I want to be square with the world. I want to no
whether you are puting Mary to any horse or not. You do as you like about it. I
hope the war wil end sometime so we can live comfortable in peace again. We
draw enough meal now and about a lb. of bacon per day. Beef has plaid out. We
haven't drawed any in some time. I have picked me out a place over here by the
mountain to live. If I owned it, I think it would soote me. Don't think hard of
me for reproving you for not riting oftener to me. I mean no harm.
I remain your loving husband until death.
Thomas C. Omary