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  • They are still camping in the woods about a mile from the town. The fortification is about four miles long and, according to John, the guns are nine to ten feet long and ten inches across. He recalls their journey to their present location and describes their meals. They receive a pound and a half of the best bread every day as well as rice, potatoes, beans, bacon, beef, coffee and the best tea. He also mentions the price of butter. He has heard that they are preparing for battle forty five miles away. He was on the picket last night, about a mile and a half from the camp, in the middle of the wood. A number from the regiment have died but he has not heard of anyone dying from his company, although many are wounded in the hospitals. They have not heard any news of Fredrick Jones.
Letter from Corporal John Griffith Jones, near Memphis, to his parents in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, 2 December 1862 [page 1 of 4]
  • Transcription: London Febr. 20 Has the wise and gracious God called for another of his children? I doubt not then but He has enabled my Friend to say The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away: Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Who would not give his Child or Parent or Friend to GOD - that he may receive them again forever? Would we secure our Blessings then let us commit them to the Hands of a Faithful Redeemer. We shall find them again another Day in a Place where is no more Death, neither sorrow nor crying, nor pain. There our forerunner is for us entred and many of our own fellow-disciples have outrun us, and come first to the sepulchre. In patience let us possess our souls and we also shall hear the joyful word come up hither! Let me hear as soon as may be, how our Lord has disposed of you and your little ones. - Let not your Heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. He will sanctify all his Dispensations towards you; and make them work together for your good. Be faithful unto Death - for a Crown of Life is waiting for you. (Source: Glamorgan Record Office)
Letter from Charles Wesley to Mrs Jones of Fonmon Castle, 20 February [17--] (image 1 of 4]
  • The deposition of John Kirkhouse Cooke, surgeon of Llanelli, of a postmortem examination undertaken with Benjamin Thomas, at the inquest into the death of Sarah Williams who died in the attack on the Hendy tollhouse on 11 September 1843.
Deposition of J. K. Cook at the inquest into the death of Sarah Williams, Hendy Bridge Gate, 11 September 1843 [page 1 of 4]
  • The evidence of Margaret Thomas, wife of John Thomas, carpenter of Llanedi, at the inquest into the death of Sarah Williams who died in an attack on the Hendy tollhouse on 11 September 1843.
Deposition of Margaret Thomas at the inquest into the death of Sarah Williams, Hendy Bridge Gate, 11 September 1843 [page 1 of 4]
Rules and regulations of a Carmarthen Funeral Society, April 1841, frontispiece [image 1 of 8]
Letter reporting the death of a Dowlais Ironworks foreman on the Taff Vale Railway, 29 March 1845 [page 1 of 2]