Collier Family Letter 
30 Mar 1862
| Camp Collier Sabine Post 30th March 1862 My Dearest Elizabeth, I have received no letter from you since writing the one sent by Keith but hope and pray that you are all well. My health is a little better and I hope may improve. I intended starting home tomorrow morning but our Major has returned from Houston and says there is positively an order to disband all 6 & 12 month troops. Our Governor has just signed the order, and sent a messenger to Virginia to try to have the order countermanded and Genl Hebert has suspended the execution of the order till the messenger returns from Va, but the Governor of Alabama done the same and the president has compelled the order executed in Ala and I fell confident he will have us disbanded also. I sent Cicero hoe to try to make corn and potatoes, and want him to plant as much as he can. Now him and Catherine can cultivate. If Reese quits they will try to cultivate what he has planted. I shall want the whole of this wheat put {?}__up planted in potatoe vines, after the wheat comes off. It may be 2 or 3 and perhaps 4 weeks before we can get home, though the Major thinks we will hear from the President in ten days more; the messenger who carried our Governors Protest having been gone 12 days already. I will to send word when we will be disbanded that the people of that section may send some wagons down after us. We will try to get to Concord on a boat, and if we can not get wagons there by the time we get there, we will take a boat home and get wagons to down after our baggage. We have no late news. The War {?}Steamer has not been seen or heard from lately. Our things Bro. Joe brought to Concord have not reached here yet and may not for a week to come. A ?______ Boat started with them soon after Bro. Joe left them and got down in the mouth of the River, & sold out her load of wood and hogs and went back after another load. The wind is and has been for sometime, from the south, and she may not get here in a week to come yet. There will be an effort made to get my company, or part of them, to Volunteer for the rest of the war, but how many will do so I do not know, though i think not many. I for one intended coming home as soon as disbanded, if I live, and shall not go in the army again unless the enemy gets in our country, and even then I do not expect to join the army. Dallas is well and all the company up but Alfred Carraway, he is in the Hospital and not dangerous. 31th March 62 Nothing new or strange this
morning, health about as usual. I remain your affectionate
Husband ****************************** (above letter in possession of Barbara Yancey Dore, Nederland, Tx) |
