Resident of N. Philadelphia.
Muster date Aug. 19, 1862.
Died at Rome, Ga., Aug. 28, 1864.
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DAWALK, JACKSON <<<
PVT US ARMY
CIVIL WAR
DATE OF DEATH: 08/28/1864
BURIED AT: SECTION C SITE 1339
-VA gravesite locator
...the last letter Jackson wrote home. Apparently he had some illness diagnosed as chronic diarrhea. That is probably what killed him. -Tracy
July the 5 1864
Rome Georgia
Dear father and Mother I take my pen in hand to try and rite you a few lines to let you know how I am Geten. I am Geten well fast as any one mite expect. They dedicd it the Cronick diaree and I have had it. Stapt an me and I Can run around thru the town. Well I hant hird from home for Some time and I would like to hear frum home the best kind but I expect that yu are So busey with your work that you Cant rite to me till you get thrue With your work and I don't know hardly what to writ about.
Well I can tell you that our forth of July was very dry thing but I wish that I Could Slept in on that day at home. but I Could not and I am afraid that the ware will not be over again til another one roles around. but if it is not over then it will not be very long till our time is out then. Shall and Virten all of the vetern Soldiers is very Sick of there vetern. They Say if they had not went in to it they would not a went in now. Shall for there times would a bin out and then they Could went home and Staid there till they got ready to Come back.
Well I will have to Close for this time. Then rite Soon and often and you Can direct your leters to Rome Ga to the Etawah house has I do not know the number of it and they will Come to Safe and Sound.
Jackson Dawalt
Daniel Dawalt
Resident of N. Philadelphia.
Muster date Aug. 19, 1862.
Died at Rome, Ga., Aug. 28, 1864.
-Indiana AG
DAWALK, JACKSON <<<
PVT US ARMY
CIVIL WAR
DATE OF DEATH: 08/28/1864
BURIED AT: SECTION C SITE 1339
-VA gravesite locator
...the last letter Jackson wrote home. Apparently he had some illness diagnosed as chronic diarrhea. That is probably what killed him. -Tracy
July the 5 1864
Rome Georgia
Dear father and Mother I take my pen in hand to try and rite you a few lines to let you know how I am Geten. I am Geten well fast as any one mite expect. They dedicd it the Cronick diaree and I have had it. Stapt an me and I Can run around thru the town. Well I hant hird from home for Some time and I would like to hear frum home the best kind but I expect that yu are So busey with your work that you Cant rite to me till you get thrue With your work and I don't know hardly what to writ about.
Well I can tell you that our forth of July was very dry thing but I wish that I Could Slept in on that day at home. but I Could not and I am afraid that the ware will not be over again til another one roles around. but if it is not over then it will not be very long till our time is out then. Shall and Virten all of the vetern Soldiers is very Sick of there vetern. They Say if they had not went in to it they would not a went in now. Shall for there times would a bin out and then they Could went home and Staid there till they got ready to Come back.
Well I will have to Close for this time. Then rite Soon and often and you Can direct your leters to Rome Ga to the Etawah house has I do not know the number of it and they will Come to Safe and Sound.
Jackson Dawalt
Daniel Dawalt
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