1863 Excellent Confederate Letter Chickamauga and Battery Wagner Fighting Result

Description: Condition as seen. The writer is Cornelius L. Burckmyer. He is writing to his wife Rebecca. "Charleston, S.C. resident. In 1863 he and his wife Charlotte Rebecca (Boyce) Burckmyer were living in France when he decided to return to America to support the Confederate cause. His wife and daughter Mamie remained in France. Cornelius L. Burckmyer owned stock in blockade runners. After the war the Burckmyers returned to live in Charleston." Excellent letter detailing the status of various important South Carolina officers after Chickamauga and Battery Wagner! CharlestonOctober 2, 1863 My Dear Wife, I wrote you on the 14 Sept. with third of Molles, Huchet & Cor Bill for One hundred sixty and first Evans & Cogswell’s Bill for One hundred pounds and also first of Fitzgerald Ross’ Bills for forty pounds and on 24 Sep. I also wrote you enclosing seconds of these last two. The thirds you will find herein. This makes in all Nine hundred & ten pounds which I have sent you since my return home ______. I hope to keep you in comfort and free from all anxiety until this hateful war is over. I have written you so recently that there is but little new to communicate. I received on 26th your two letters of 10, 26 August and was of course delighted with their contents. Dear Little Cooty! How hard she must have worked and how earnest her dear little countenance must have looked as she discussed the probabilities of her gaining the prize. I envy you so much the sight of her bright face as she came home laden with the spoils of victory. I think she and Anna were as much _____ at the news as I was by Ben looked a little sober and said he did not like the idea of _____ children too hard as he found the effect upon their constitutions. I am enclosed to think he was right and am therefore very glad that your trip to _____ will interfere with your idea of having a teacher for her during vacation at I want her to be perfectly _________ by lessons at such a time. When she returns to school in the fall I hope she will not have to make up lost time as she did the last term and that it will therefore not be necessary for her to work so hard. Do see to it that she has exercise and recreation enough to prevent her growing thin from too close application to books.I had an opportunity today of sending you some papers by a gentleman who was going to Wilmington and who promised to see to sending them for me. I had to make up the package in a great hurry but I think you will find the papers interesting, particularly as they contain the details of Bragg’s victory over Rosecrans, the importance of which we cannot overestimate. We are looking for R’s utter annihilation and if Bragg should now prove himself as good at strategy as he is at fighting, there is ____ probability amounting almost to certainty of his wintering at Nashville or at some point shall _____ the enemy’s country. We had several friends in this battle, James Presley – commanding 10th SC, George Anderson, who is a Captain in this Regiment at and her brother David who belongs to Hood’s Division. We have heard nothing from them or of them but as nearly two weeks have elapsed sine the battle. We feel quite sanguine that in this case “no new is good news” and that by the mercy of God they have all been spared. Did I write that E_____ Adams was a member of John Pressley’s Regiment and was in the terrific bombardment of fort Wagner just before its evacuation? John speaks highly of him and says he behaved well on that occasion. Stocker’s oldest son was there also and was wounded in the right leg so that the Surgeon was forced to amputate it just below the knee. He is doing well and has recovered sufficiently to leave the City although not yet able to walk. Ben Hard’s second son (only 22 years old) Lieut col of the 7th S.C. Regiment and a very promising young man was killed at the battle of Chickamauga and his body was taken home to his Father at Graniteville. Do you know that I have at last discovered Coony Chapman? I have been constantly inquiring for the 3rd Kentucky Rifles as the Regiment to which he was attached bout I heard yesterday from the _____ who is in the city for a day or two that he has been transferred to _____ Brigade and is now doing duty on James’ Island but he could not tell me the __ of his Regiment or where it is stationed. I will ascertain in a day or two and go to see him. Mr. Rose says he has been sending his letters to his Father and after he left the Bank yesterday I saw a letter on the desk directed to Mr. Chapman from which I suppose that he has seen him. I will hear today however as I expect to met Mr. R.I wrote you in my last that David Walker was married and _____ since that Anna his sister is engaged to go through the same interesting ceremony with a young man by the name of Oflerlson said to be a very good match but of whom I know nothing personally.Since I wrote you I have seen Ken and am sorry to say this his family has been in much trouble. His daughter Lizzie was down with typhoid fever and his son Ken with diphtheria when to add to their troubles Dr. Dearing was taken with an attack of apoplexy. He himself was at his post on James’ Island but got a day or two’s furlough and went up to look after them. He left them all improving and has heard from that since that they are doing well. Sami his wife has gone to Virginia and he was in Columbia last week so that they are our of the way of the Yankees, who are however in possession of their home. Arlene has bought Goodlett’s Hotel in Greenville as a place of refuge for all her Father’s family including old and young except himself and I presume they will soon be moving up. Catherine has improved since I last wrote you and old Janey says she will soon be about again. I mentioned in one of my very recent letters that I had seen Catherine Corcoran and that she said they were getting on very well indeed. I have no further news of her since that time. Corcoran is still at the Rail Road and I try to see him every time I go up to Summerville but usually without success although Catherine says that he sees me very often. I rather think that he hides from me for when I ask Catherine why he did not come and speak to me she laughed and said he was very shy. Think of that for an Irishman!Good bye darling. Much love to all friends.Your loving husband.

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