Letter to George C Hull from L. Ech

Letter

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1: Whiteville Columbus Co N.C. July 17th 1866 Friend George Your favor of June 27th came to hand some days since and from press of business and hot weather I have failed to answer until the present. Your letter was next to meeting a friend in this lonely place. I never knew what being alone meant until being here; the village is small only two or three more houses than Raysport? The inhabitants are few and I know they would prefer the Devil to a Yankee officer as a resident among them; he and they agree better in ? I being a radical (They tern all radicals who do not worship at the alter of Democracy) an especially obnoxious to them. There were very affable and condescending until they sounded my politically; and found that I was not a democrat of the Johnson school, since which time they are the only cool thing I find in this country at the present writing. There is some professed Union men around here but they do not care to be found associating much with the Yankees for fear they bring the vengeance of the ruling party down upon their heads- It would take a volume

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Whiteville Columbus Co N.C. July 17th 1866 Friend George Your favor of June 27th came to hand some days since and from press of business and hot weather I have failed to answer until the present. Your letter was next to meeting a friend in this lonely place. I never knew what being alone meant until being here; the village is small only two or three more houses than Raysport? The inhabitants are few and I know they would prefer the Devil to a Yankee officer as a resident among them; he and they agree better in ? I being a radical (They tern all radicals who do not worship at the alter of Democracy) an especially obnoxious to them. There were very affable and condescending until they sounded my politically; and found that I was not a democrat of the Johnson school, since which time they are the only cool thing I find in this country at the present writing. There is some professed Union men around here but they do not care to be found associating much with the Yankees for fear they bring the vengeance of the ruling party down upon their heads- It would take a volume