July the 30th 1863
Camp Reade, Tulahoma, Tennessee
Dear wife I with haste take my pen in hand to drop you a few lines to let you to no that that I am well at this time and I hope when you git this few lines tha will find you all well. I am in a grate hurry to send you sixteen dollar. I hav got a chance to send hit to day and the man is awaten for hit. The car is reddy to start now so far well. I will right you a letter to morrow or next day.
Hillory Shifflet
Note: here's what Webster thinks of the word "car."
car [ME carre, fr. AF, fr. L carra, pl of carrum, alter. of carrus, of
Celt origin; akin to OIr & MW carr vehicle; akin to L currere to run]
(14c) 1: a vehicle moving on wheels: a archaic: carriage, cart, chariot
b: a vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad or street railway c:
automobile 2: the passenger compartment of an elevator 3: the part of an
airship or balloon that carries the power plant, personnel, and cargo.
Furthermore: I notice in the newspaper article about the death of
Britmart Shifflet Baldwin that she was a passenger in an AUTO that
"collided with a south bound Western Ohio CAR.". . . The Western Ohio car was a railroad interurban line. The headline was, "Woman killed when auto rams
into car." kf Continue to Hillory Shiflet Letter #13
