Letter, Isaac Cox to Wife, Taswill (Tazewell) County Va., June 29, 1862 (Ms2012-071)
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Taswill [Tazewell] County June 29 1862 Dier Affectio
nated Wife I take the plesent matter of senden you
A few lines to let you now that I am well
at this time hopeing when this few lines come to hand
they will find you in
helth I received you kind best
last eavining and I was truley glad to here that
you was all well we had the hardest
march to prinzton [Princeton] and back that I ever had we
was orded to cook 4 days rashuns the
other day and then we started and was gon to [two]
days and a half from our camps we was
march in 4 miles of prinzton and then we stade
in the woods for two days and 3 nites
and then return to our camps it made my
feet very soar you wanted to no what had be
com of bill he is still at [Jefferson?]
Mills in the horsepital yet & hant
herd from him in a bout 2 weeks and
then he was getin well as for as he cald
I am a goin to try to come home er bout harvest if
I can but I don’t no whither I can er not
So no more at this time only Still rember
your husband un till deth
Carroll Co to Charlott Cox
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Isaac C. Cox (1843-1925) enlisted as private in the 29th Virginia at Saltville, Va., on April 3, 1862. He was promoted corporal during the war. The 29th fought primarily in Western Virginia and Kentucky during their service until they joined the Army of Northern Virginia at Cold Harbor and Bermuda Hundred in May 1864. He and his wife, Charlotte Newman Cox (1834-1911), lived in Carroll County, Virginia after the war. They had five children, two of whom where born during the war. The couple are now buried in Newman Cemetery, Riverhill, Virginia.