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Purdy, Warren G.

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University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ScholarWorks @ UTRGV Acca L. Colby Purdy Correspondence (Brownsville, Matamoros) Special Collections and Archives 4-12-1866 Warren G. Purdy Correspondence, 1866-04-12 Warren G. Purdy Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/accacolbypurdy Recommended Citation Acca L. Colby Purdy Correspondence (BLIBR-0004), UTRGV Digital Library, The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley. Access via https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/accacolbypurdy This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections and Archives at ScholarWorks @ UTRGV. It has been accepted for inclusion in Acca L. Colby Purdy Correspondence (Brownsville, Matamoros) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ UTRGV. For more information, please contact justin.white@utrgv.edu, william.flores01@utrgv.edu. Office Supervising Quartermaster District of the Rio Grande Brownsville, Texas April 12, 1866 Dear Dad -Having had the pleasure of receiving a letter from you by last steamer and there being a steamer at Brazos now which will sail for New Orleans direct tomorrow PM I will endeavour to forward you a short epistle - We are OK only Ren's bowels are slights out of order. A crowd of us including she and Mrs. Plato went to Brazos and back last Tuesday riding about 55 miles horseback in one day which is enough in my opinion to disarrange any woman's bowels - They stood it first rate - and we had a gay time though the sun was pretty warm and proved almost too much for Ren' s head. I sent you by last steamer a pack of Mexican Monte Cards which I obtained in Matamoras - I also sent you a copy of the Rio Grande Courier containing an account of a little affair in which the undersigned figured rather more extensively than is absolutely necessary in order to enjoy health and be happy - There are parties here who have been on the track of Plato and I for some time. They have an idea that the QM Dept has lots of money and they "hanker after" the safe keys but we don't let everybody know which one of us has them so they "go for" both of us -If they do catch us we will be comparative worthless except as a fertilizer and if we catch them, we will give cause for their friends to attend a funeral -We had no chance to fire at them the night we were attacked - it being very dark, and drizzling rain - besides our ambulance curtains both sides and rear were tightly closed. We are indebted for our lives to presence of mind and a pair of good horses - it don't speak very well for their proficiency as marksman to have them hoot twice at us within distance of 10 feet without killing any one -The Imperials and Liberals were fighting all day yesterday - within 15 miles of here. The liberals are trying to get Matamoras and the Imperials went out to meet them -I say let them fight they are all a set of low lived cusses - and if they can kill each other let them "go in" I have seen enough of both parties to disgust any white swan - though I know officers of each side who are good fellows-As it approaches the hour of 2 at which time the women expect us to report to our "Ranche" for grub. I must dry up. Hoping to hear from you soon I remain yours as ever Warmly Ren wrote to her mother by last steamer WG 

Warren G. Purdy Correspondence, 1866-04-12

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Warren G. Purdy Correspondence, 1866-04-12

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