Son of Lemuel Morris and Martha Estes.
Confederate Veteran
"I spent nearly three years of my life in the war and it has ever been amystery to me how I ever got out alive and not hurt. I have bin in forty nine days in the time I was out. I was in the grate battle of Vicksburge, where we fought forty seven days and nights on one forth rations. At last we had to eat mules and horses before we was surrendered to the Federals. We went in to Vicksburg with Twenty Seven thousand mend. We were surrounded by One Hundred and seventy five thousand. We fought fortyseven days and nights and a great deal of our time in ten feet of each other. We and the Federals I have bin where the balls flew as thick it appeared as ever hail fell and men a fowling (falling) on my right and left my nearest and best friends shot down at my side."
(From a letter written to Dr. Madison B. Morris in April 1866; in Ouchita Co., Arkansas.)
Confederate Veteran
"I spent nearly three years of my life in the war and it has ever been amystery to me how I ever got out alive and not hurt. I have bin in forty nine days in the time I was out. I was in the grate battle of Vicksburge, where we fought forty seven days and nights on one forth rations. At last we had to eat mules and horses before we was surrendered to the Federals. We went in to Vicksburg with Twenty Seven thousand mend. We were surrounded by One Hundred and seventy five thousand. We fought fortyseven days and nights and a great deal of our time in ten feet of each other. We and the Federals I have bin where the balls flew as thick it appeared as ever hail fell and men a fowling (falling) on my right and left my nearest and best friends shot down at my side."
(From a letter written to Dr. Madison B. Morris in April 1866; in Ouchita Co., Arkansas.)
Son of Lemuel Morris and Martha Estes.
Confederate Veteran
"I spent nearly three years of my life in the war and it has ever been amystery to me how I ever got out alive and not hurt. I have bin in forty nine days in the time I was out. I was in the grate battle of Vicksburge, where we fought forty seven days and nights on one forth rations. At last we had to eat mules and horses before we was surrendered to the Federals. We went in to Vicksburg with Twenty Seven thousand mend. We were surrounded by One Hundred and seventy five thousand. We fought fortyseven days and nights and a great deal of our time in ten feet of each other. We and the Federals I have bin where the balls flew as thick it appeared as ever hail fell and men a fowling (falling) on my right and left my nearest and best friends shot down at my side."
(From a letter written to Dr. Madison B. Morris in April 1866; in Ouchita Co., Arkansas.)
Confederate Veteran
"I spent nearly three years of my life in the war and it has ever been amystery to me how I ever got out alive and not hurt. I have bin in forty nine days in the time I was out. I was in the grate battle of Vicksburge, where we fought forty seven days and nights on one forth rations. At last we had to eat mules and horses before we was surrendered to the Federals. We went in to Vicksburg with Twenty Seven thousand mend. We were surrounded by One Hundred and seventy five thousand. We fought fortyseven days and nights and a great deal of our time in ten feet of each other. We and the Federals I have bin where the balls flew as thick it appeared as ever hail fell and men a fowling (falling) on my right and left my nearest and best friends shot down at my side."
(From a letter written to Dr. Madison B. Morris in April 1866; in Ouchita Co., Arkansas.)
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