THE
FOLLOWING IS A COPY (QUOTED PRECISELY) OF A LETTER WRITTEN BY
PLEASANT BABER TO HIS WIFE RACHEL CHISM BABER.
Camp
Chase Ohio September 14th 1863
Dear
Wife, I received your letter of Sept 6th was glad to hear from you
and to hear that you were well.
Myself
and Stanley are well at this time. I
received all the clothes and money that you sent me by Mr. Rutledge.
You wrote that you wanted me to come home and didn’t want me to join the
Army. Well I intend comeing home
as soon as I can and don’t intend joining any army.
I don’t know yet when I will be allowed to come home but hope it will
not be long. Tell Stanley and the children that I want to see them very
much. Rachel, God is with us
here, we have preaching in prison every even night.
John Glover and Cobby Poir also are here with us and are well.
This
letter of yours came in one with John Glover’s.
I want you to write to me soon and often=direct your letter to Pleasant
Beaver, Prison No. 3, Camp Chase Ohio.
I
remain your Husband Pleasant Beaver”
ON
THE BACK OF THE LETTER PLEASANT WROTE THE FOLLOWING:
“Tell
Francis that Stanley is here with me and has not received a letter from her
yet. He is well and has written
to her five or six time. He says
tell Francis that he intends to come home as soon as he can and quite
fighting. But don’t know yet
when he will have the chance to come home
Tell
George to have him a good old Bottle of Blakmore whiskey by the time he gets
there. He wants them to write to
him soon and direct their letters to Stanley Beaver, Prison No. 3, Camp Chase
Ohio.”
Special
Note per BJGlass:
I
also have an envelope addressed to “Rachel Baber Winchester, Kentucky”
The postmark is from Columbus, Ohio and date is 12/17/(don’t see a
year). This
envelope is obviously connected with another letter.
It
is well to note that although Pleasant referred to his last name as Beaver (A
SURNAME USED BY CERTAIN BABER FAMILY), he still addressed his letter to Rachel
Baber.
THE
SECOND NAME OF STANLEY THAT PLEASANT SPEAKS OF MAY HAVE BEEN HIS COUSIN, SON
OF STANLEY AND CALPERNIA BABER.
aLTHOUGH
pLEASANT SPEAKS IN THIS LETTER OF NOT INTENDING TO JOIN THE ARMY, HE DIED
DURING THE CIVIL WAR AT CAMP MORTON. pLEASANT’S
DAUGHTER, CATHERINE ELIZABETH WAS GRANDMOTHER TO THE LADY (Mayme Dunn) WHO
SAVED THIS LETTER AND DIED IN 1966.
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