Letter from Private John J. Armfield, Company C (Brunswick Double Quicks), Thirtieth Regiment North Carolina Troops, to His Wife, Lydia B. Armfield, November 26, 1864
Chapel Hill
Jan. 20th 1861
I received your kind letter of the 19th and was glad to hear from you once more. It was only four days on the road. I am well with the exception of diarrhea which troubles me considerably. I think it is because of the limestone water. I am now excused from duty on account of it. I know nothing of much importance to write so will answer some of the questions in yours. You wish to know if we have any tents to sleep in. There is not a tent in this brigade except the officers' and what the soldiers captured from the Yanks, but we have stretched some blankets up for a tent and keep a fire at the mouth of it and manage to sleep pretty comfortable.
. . . The soldiers are better clothed here than I expected, but some of them have their toes out of their shoes. . . .
