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A letter from Sergeant Augustus Caldwell to his wife, Mary, who lived in Jefferson County, vividly describes Camp Winn at Shelby Springs when the men of the 28th volunteers were training there in 1862.
Shelby Springs
Shelby County, Alabama
March 5, 1862
Mary I seat myself again to write to you and the children afew lines to let you know that I am well and enjoying a good health as I every did in my life / Mary I can cook as good a meal vituels as eny body can Mary I wish you could be heare to see us amarching and hear our music / It is a nuf to make eney boddys hae ris on there head whn the fiffe and drum and the base drum is a beting
Those Gallant Men of the Twenty-Eighth Alabama Confederate Infantry Regiment by James H. Walker and Robert Curren
Shelby Springs
Shelby County, Alabama
March 5, 1862
Mary I seat myself again to write to you and the children afew lines to let you know that I am well and enjoying a good health as I every did in my life / Mary I can cook as good a meal vituels as eny body can Mary I wish you could be heare to see us amarching and hear our music / It is a nuf to make eney boddys hae ris on there head whn the fiffe and drum and the base drum is a beting
Those Gallant Men of the Twenty-Eighth Alabama Confederate Infantry Regiment by James H. Walker and Robert Curren
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