Letter from Elizabeth Chamberlain to Governor Zebulon B. Vance
State of NC yadkin county nov the 21 1862
Dear sir it is with a troubled heart a distressed mind and afflicted body that I now attimpt to write to you and I hope that you will not turn a deaf ear to my request Sir my husband has been forced from me to the army while he is deseased in different ways and I have understood that he was not allowed to stop to be examined but was sent right to the army and has to stay there diseased and afflicted and has not been well since he has been there and was not well when he left but he was taken away while others well and sound was let off and I am left here desolate and weekly I have neither father nor brother to assist me and I a poor woman and one child to take care of and my request to you that you will let my husband off so that he can come to my assistance that me and child may not suffer and die deny me not I come as a beging lazerous and as a weeping mary I come pleading for my husband my self and my child that we may not perish and die hear me in behalf of my husband and I hope that god will reward you for it my husband's name is L L chamberlain
From Elizabeth chamberlain
I had forgotten to state where he was 13th regiment NC troops company G care of captain Hyman answer my letter if you please but don't put your name on the back for fear that I never git it Hamptonville
