They go to Sunday- School, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. Anderson), and the children, Milly, Jane and Grundy, go to school and are learning well the teacher says grundy has a head for a preacher. I am doing tolerably well here I get $25 a month, with victuals and clothing have a comfortable home for Mandy (the folks here call her Mrs. I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville hospital, but one of the neighbors told me Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again and see Miss mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. I suppose they never heard about your going to Col. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this for harboring Rebs they found at your house. Sir: I got your letter and was glad to find you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can.
Jourdon Anderson, an ex- Tennessee slave, declines his former master's invitation to return as a laborer on his plantation. A Former Tennessee Slaves Decline His Master's Invitation to Return to His Plantation
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