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Camp Holmes near Austin,
Ark Sept 18th 1862
Dear Minerva
I write you again; am well and enjoying myself as well as possible. Our march has ended and we are now occupying ground beyond which we have no claim only as we get by conquest. We are in the great campus of the trans-Mississippi Army and compose a part of it. We begin to see and feel the stern realities of a warlike campaign. We are done with childs play in military affairs and henceforth will do duty as soldiers Gen Holmes is here and promises us plenty of duty. I pronounce him an able man. Gen H. E. McCulloch is here, he is Texas’ favorite and will command a Texas Division. McCulloch will please the Texans. They love him. He is an able experienced General, and a Christian Gentleman Col O. Young (our Col) will command a Brigade of Texans. Col Randall of Marshall will command another. When we will go is known only to our superiors. It is useless to communicate rumors, camps abound with any kind of news but it generally proves incorrect, time will reveal our movements. Taylor’s Reg is here, that is, what is left of it. Regiments to do well must have an efficient Commander, perhaps Col Moore would have done much better, at least he could not have worse. Gen Jones is looking badly, he has Chronic Spleenitis with general Anasarca.
Nearly all the boys look badly in that Company. They want something to buoy up their spirits and infuse new life. They have fallen into a kind of demoralized condition from a want of perfect and permanent organization. George wants to get into our command, so he says, others are also very anxious to do the same.
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| Title | Bone Letter, September 13, 1862 |
| Subject |
Correspondence Civil War Military life Medicine Health |
| Description | Near Austin, Arkansas, Camp Holmes. Dr. Boneto Minerva: his regiment is entering the war zone, he is resigned to ignore rumors and to let time reveal their movements, one of the regiments that he sees is not doing well because of lack of organization and leadership (Taylor), he is disgusted with those "patriots" who have "bursted their boilers" in the days of Secession and who now just want to go home, he has money now and will send some to her, food and clothing are terribly expensive. |
| Date | September 13, 1862 |
| Collection |
Bone Family Papers |
| Collection Identifer | A9, Box 1, Folder 30 |
| Collection Link | http://library.sfasu.edu/findingaids/?p=collections/controlcard&id=17 |
| Biographical Note | Robert Donnell Bone (1832-1892) was born in Wilson County, Tennessee, and came to Nacogdoches County in 1841 with his mother and stepfather. He and his brothers and sister moved in with his older sister when she married John Winstead Paine in 1846. After a serious illness of pneumonia, R. D. Bone rode horseback to Tennessee and entered the University at Nashville Medical School (which later became Vanderbilt University) in 1854 and returned to Douglass, Texas, to practice medicine after graduating in 1858. That same year he married Griselda Minerva Burk (1841-1912) who was also from Tennessee and had moved to Nacogdoches County, Texas, with her family in 1848. On November 25, 1861, Dr. Bone was appointed to serve as Assistant Surgeon of the 12th Texas Volunteer Infantry, Col. Overton Young's Regiment at Camp Hebert, Hempstead, Austin County, Texas. He felt it was his duty to serve the cause of the Confederacy and eagerly attended his post. As revealed in the following letters exchanged with his wife while on active duty in the Civil War, it soon became clear that he would have to contend with inadequate provisions, boring camp routine and confusing orders. "The Fever", dysentery, measles and exposure were Dr. Bone's patients' main medical problems; his regiment was not involved in any serious fighting. When he resigned his commission on March 7, 1863, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, he went back to Douglass, Texas, to practice medicine. Dr. Bone also bought cotton and cattle and took them to New Orleans each fall to be sold. Minerva was Post Mistress in Douglass from 1866-1867. Only six of the Bone's 12 children reached adulthood, and two of their sons graduated from the University at Nashville Medical School exactly 50 years after Dr. Bone did. At least eight of his descendants have followed him in serving the medical profession. (Aiken, Roy L. (Pete). "Bone Family." In Nacogdoches County Families, 172. Dallas, Tx.: Curtis Media Corporation, 1985.) |
| Scope and Content Note | Included in the collection of letters between Dr. Bone and Minerva are letters to the Bones from family and friends, report forms from the post office at Douglass, and two poems (probably written by Dr. Bone). Typescripts for most of the papers in the collection are in a booklet in Box 2. Several 19th century newspapers belonging to Dr. Bone are cataloged and shelved with the newspaper bundles. |
| Associated Dates |
1860-1869 |
| Type | Correspondence |
| Repository | East Texas Research Center |
| Repository Link | http://library.sfasu.edu/etrc/ |
| Rights | This item may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. It is available for non-commercial research and education. For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the East Texas Research Center at asketrc@sfasu.edu. |
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