WARTIME LETTER OF

PVT. ELIJAH W. HULL,
CO. I, 10TH TEXAS INFANTRY

TO HIS PARENTS
IN JOHNSON COUNTY, TEXAS

contributed by:

Pvt. Hull's Great-Great Grand Nephew,
SAM HULL
of Garland, Texas


 

State of Texas         
fort hebert          
febuary the 23 1862         
 

                                                   Dear fother and mother I take the oportunity droping you a few lines to let you know that i have got sose to be a bout again   i set up with barnet and then stood guard all day and night and taken a sevear chold and it seteld in mi bres and back.   i think that i will say soes to bee up but i dont expect that i will be able for duty in a good wile.   the ot[her]s that came with me down with me thear is mor bad colds than i ever saw.   there are all up at nigh untill tin or aleven oclock at night and the are is so hevey.   this is the lowest place that ever was - the frogs has to get up on a log to holow and i was ove in galveston and that is wors.   i saw the old blocade hit was composed of foure ships.    i think they were afraid to attact it.   wee hear mour lies hear than you do thear and wee dont never now that when we hear the trouth or not.   you get the news there befoure wee do hear for we never nowe the trout when we he[ar] it

 

            thear is a heap of talk about whear wee are a goying to but thear is no telling wear but i think that we will go sumers in misuri but i cant say.   thear was ship past by the blockad and went to ingland.   they fierd at thim but done nothin.   i can hear canons every day.   we havent got any money yet they say that they will pay us of the 29 but i cant say when.   i am surly sadisfied if i can get mi helth and if i dont i will come home.   i supos that johnsons redgment will be off to missouri but hear is so much fuss that we cant no any thing.   I have just bin to preching heard a buly surmant.

 

 

    I must bring mi leter to a close as it is lait.   I want you t[o] wright to me and let me know h[ow] the stock is doin.   mi best rspect to all.   dyrect your leter to fourt hebert texas

E. W. Hull to            
aall mi frinds              
 

 

 

[Collection of Hull Descendant, Sam Hull of Garland, Texas]
 


 

Notes

Pvt. Elijah W. Hull - Age 23 upon enlistment as Pvt. with Co. I, 10th Texas Infantry, on January 29, 1862 at Millican, Brazos County, Texas.   According to Hull descendant, Sam Hull, Pvt. Hull was born in Morgan County, Illinois, on January 17, 1839, and his father moved the family to Johnson County, Texas, around 1855.

 

     The 10th Texas Infantry was assigned to the Trans Mississippi Department at Little Rock, Arkansas on June 8, 1862, and Pvt. Hull died of disease in that city on July 12, 1862.



 

Pvt. David A. Barnett - (mentioned in above letter) Enlisted with Co. I, 10th Texas Infantry, at Millican, Brazos County, Texas, on January 16, 1862.   Pvt. Barnet was admitted to the hospital at Lewisburg, Arkansas, on May 21, 1862.

 

    Pvt. Barnett was captured with the rest of the regiment, at Arkansas Post, Arkansas, on January 11, 1863; arriving at Camp Douglas Prison at near Chicago, Illinois, on January 29th.   Pvt. Barnett died of "Pneumonia" in Camp Douglas on February 9, 1863.



 

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