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Near Little Rock Ark
Dec 14th 1862
Dear Minerva
I have not written to you for a long time. I received yours of the 9th ult [sic] and was glad indeed to hear that you were well. I write every convenient opportunity and am glad always to get letters from home. We left Camp Bayou Metoe [sic] on the 11th and are here with orders to go to Genl Hudman’s relief in north western Ark. We know not whether we will go or not so little confidence is to be placed in what we hear. My health is good except a troublesome Diarrhrea [sic] I have contracted. Lieut. E S Dickson is very low at the Hospital, I cannot get to see him yet. Bun Boyd starts for home tomorrow and I send Woodpeck home to you to take car of. I am injuring him here in camp too much. I also send you Three hundred and Twenty five dollars and I wish you to hand Two hundred and Seventy five of it to your Pa, and get him to pay what I owe to Garrett Raguet etc. at Shrevesport [sic] which will take about one hundred and forty dollars. The ballance [sic] I want him to use for your support our little boy woodpeck etc. I want you t have fifty dollars for pocket change, be certain to use it judiciously. Bun can tell you all the news.
I did expect to go home with Bun but I suppose I cannot. I have sent up my resignation but I fear I cant [sic] get off If possible I will get off and come home till spring. Write soon R.D. Bone
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| Title | Bone Letter, December 14, 1862 |
| Subject |
Correspondence Medicine Civil War |
| Description | Near Little Rock, Ark. Dr. Bone to Minerva: he's sending his horse home with a friend and also $325, will not get to come home until spring, was not appointed surgeon to his dismay. There is also a letter on the back to J.W. Burk. |
| Date | December 14, 1862 |
| Collection | Bone Family Papers |
| Collection Identifer | A9, Box 1, Folder 35 |
| 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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