James Henry Lauriston ("Lar") Hull

4th Sergeant, Company F., 10th Texas Cavalry, Confederate States Army
Enlisted October 1861 and Surrendered May 26, 1865

Civil War Letter Collection, Kickapoo, TX - 1864

Transcribed by J. Brinkoeter

Office of G. Iron Works Anderson Co., Texas Nov 29th/64 My Dear Father, Your anxiously looked for, kind letter has been received & read with delight & though I hasten to ... yet I hope under the smiles of ... Providence to outstrip these lives to their destiny ... to leave here Saturday the 3rd and ... early as I could have ... started. I will mail ... noon & it should reach you by Monday or Tuesday. I am blest with very good luck & a peaceful mind. There is nothing worthy of ... in this corner of the Confederate States. No weddings; one death though lately. Mrs. Ayres, ... Miller’s sister, she died suddenly of "choking quinsy." She had given her son, just starting to the Army, a party, and the next day started with him and accompanied him as far as Magnolia & was meeting & on the road at Mound Prairie took sick & died!! Oh the mysterious workings of Divine Providence. We know not the hour of our end & it continually behooves us to live as living to Death on Earth daily & to life everlasting in heaven - may the chasteness of ... & the giver of all good gifts, keep us as in the hold of His hand, giving sufficient as to help in times of need & enable us in the end to obtain that "pearl of Great Prize." Your devoted son J. H. L. Hull

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