I hope to live to get home once more and to see you all alive once more in this world. If not, if God shall see fit to take me from time to eternity, either by sickness or by the enemy’s musket balls, I hope to see you all in the heavens above where pain and parting will be no more. -Richard J. Kent of Co. G, 37th Alabama Infantry to his wife from Saltillo, Mississippi, in August 1862.
This three page letter was written by Richard J. Kent (1840-1863), a private in Co. G, 37th Alabama Infantry. Richard enlisted in April 1862 at Auburn, Lee county, Alabama. Richard’s name appears on a list of killed and wounded in Moore’s Brigade, Forney’s Division, during the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, between 17 May to 4 July 1863.

Richard wrote the letter his his wife, Martha J. (Stenson) Kent (1842-1910), whom he married on 11 October 1859 in Chambers, Alabama. The couple had one child, John Thomas Kent, born on 23 November 1862.

Serious bidders are encouraged to read a full transcription of the letter, which can be found here:

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