The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 55, July 1951 - April, 1952 Page: 392
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
so far away-these words from home! I seem to see you when I read
your letters-you seem so full of Dear Pa-truely I feel proud & happy
in my dear children-Ma & I what have we now to live for but the
love & kindness of our children-give us but this & we will never
complain but thank God that he has so blessed us in you-I will be
with you soon when we can talk over all about going to school
& studies & so many other things. God bless you all
Yr father E A Pye
Give Pa's love to his little man Charley
Headquarters District Texas &c
Houston Feby. 26th 1864
H order )
No. 57 )
VII. ) At the request of Surgeon J. I. Gaensler Inspector Genl
Hospitals Dr E A. Pye, will proceed at once to Niblett's Bluff, and
take charge of the Hospital at that place.
By Order of
Maj'r Gen Magruder
C. M. Mason
Adjt & A.?.?.?.
D'r E. A. Pye
Thro. Surg'n Gaensler
[Endorsement:] Order "No. 57". from Mj. Gen Magruder to [take]
charge of Hospital Niblett's Bluff Feb. 26. 7864
[Endorsement:] Transportation in train [?] from Houston to Beau-
mont.
E. P. Gaines
Feby 27 / 64 Asst Sugt
Niblett's Bluff La7
Mar. 6. 1864. Hospital-
Dearest Wife-one little week has rolled away & here I am sitting at my
desk this Sunday night-with you all in spirit, but how far away in
the flesh! how farl It seems to me that I have nearly got out of the
world-I think if Edith could spend a day at Nibletts Bluff it would
cure her of Louisiana. But I must tell you how I got here-I started
Monday Morning from Houston-rainy & cold a most disagreeable
day. No fire in the cars-to make the matter worse the cars run over
a cow & run off the track which made us in the night getting to
TNiblett's Bluff Post Office, which may or may not be the same as Niblett's Bluff,
seems to have been located in Louisiana about ten to fifteen miles northeast of
Orange, Texas. See Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies (Washington, 1894), Plate CLVII.392
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