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Letter from Charles L. Powell, Jr (Fairfield, Va.) to Hattie Powell ( ? )
9 May 1861 ( on beautiful CSA letterhead w/ CSA seal featuring Jefferson Davis)
Powell Papers - 65 P875, Box III, Folder 1
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Confederate States of America
1862
Fairfield May 9th
My dear Hattie
I wrote you from
Staunton & never having received an
answer I take it for granted you do not
know where to direct to me, you do not
know how anxious I am to hear from
you all, we left so very hurriedly expec
ting to go directly to Lynchburg, but have
been at this little village for nearly
two weeks & will be obliged to stay
some days longer, poor little Hugh fell
from the top of a barn & broke his thigh
bones, Pa thinks they can put him on
crutches in a week, he does not suffer
much but cannot be moved. we are
12 miles, from Lexington, at which place
I expect we will spend some weeks if
we cannot return to Staunton so
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please direct your letters to Fairfield
Rockbridge Co, & I will have them forward
ed to me if I am not here. I did hope
to have sent you very late news from
Winchester but Hunter wrote me yes
terday the ____ had been obliged to
burn them for fear they would
fall into the Enemy's hands. They
then being all around him. I knew
they were coming & was so disappointed
I have had several letters from Mother,
none later than the 19th of April
she tells me yr house is now occupied
by Surgeons. They have taken her
Stable & have a sentinel at yr door &
her Stable door, she regrets very much
Mrs McDonald did not get down in
time to take possessions, he has been
so annoyed & ill treated will be
obliged to stay in town, I was so glad
to hear your house was not a Hospital,
the furniture will not be so much
injured. The Breedins have been
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treated so badly in that respect, and
will never be paid for it, Fannie is
teaching at Robert Glass's, Louise
had gone to Maryland to see Mr
Noonan's Mother, Lucy is at her Aunts,
Mother writes in good spirits, gets
our letters regularly & does not stand
in the least fear of the wretches,
her house was searched, it was
reported Pa had gotten home &
Bill Anderson swore he had shaken
hands with him, Mother says she
was at Mrs Tidballs, some one came
in & told her the house was sur
rounded by soldiers, she got over as
soon as possible & very much provoked
to find the yard full, she told them
she knew they had not authority
to do any thing of the kind & ordered
them off, said it should not be
done by such a looking set of they
were, write a note to Col Lewis if
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he wished the house searched to
send proper persons to do it and dis
perse the crowd, he was very polite,
sent a file of soldiers & they soon
went all over the house, out houses, &
she heard one of them say, he
wished he had the searching of
that house he would make that
She devil hush up, just think of
them being in power of such low
lived villians. I am very sorry Rose
crans is in command Banks is
so poor a Genl he really left Win
after dinner on Sunday the day of
the fight & went to Harpers Ferry & back
to breakfast Monday morning. Dr Barre_
has taken his wife away, she is very
Southern & so anxious for him to
resign, Mrs Fauntleroy is still very
sick, Mr Byrd is still under arrest
but at home, and Aunt Rebecca has
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