Item Description: Letter from Peter Adams to John Steele Henderson. He is being sent off to serve in the war.
Item Citation: Folder 36 in the John S. Henderson Papers, #327, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Item Transcription:
Chapel Hill
Dec 1 1864
Dear John,
We are ordered to the war; shift for yourself and watch out well.
I leave here tonight.
I have just seen Bernie he is nearly dead.
Yours in the bonds,
Peter Adams