.NjAx.MTI0Nzc
Mt. Pleasant Sep. 26th
1862
My own Dear Brother,
We received your letter to Sister Sue a
few days ago & are glad to know that you are so comfortable.
We had felt rather uneasy thinking that perhaps you were at
Williamsburg & we have been so anxious about Brother Dick but
Mollie got a letter from him Monday written the 18th saying
that he was well & that the whole company were safe except
Mr. Meredith who was missing but they hoped ^he^ would soon come
up again. Col Thornton was killed by the bursting of a shell & Bro
Dick was very near but escaped unhurt & Hal Edmunds was quite
near where another burst & killed a horse in the same regiment.
Col. T. was the only one killed though there were others wounded.
Mr. Venable received a very bad flesh wound & ^William Walton &^ John Morton Booker
were killed. We can get none of the ^particulars^ of J. Booker's death. Mr. Booker & Cous-
in Lucy are very much crushed by the news. Ma & I went over yester-
day to see them. Cousin Susan Scott was there. There is but one
alleviation to the stroke & that is he was a Christian. Our coun-
ty has suffered very much from this war & now the Farmville Guard
haven't been heard from at all they were in the 18th Regiment &
I don't think any company in the Reg. have been heard from.
Just as I got here in my letter Brother came up to bring Sallie
to school. He says Abram Venable of the 18th Reg. has reached Farm-
ville, so I suppose they are safe. Brother was on his way to see
Fannie & expects to bring her home with him. John Venable
is better, able to go up home. It is night now, we have had
a house full of girls today. Lou & Sue & [Nelia?] Booker, Emma [Henry?]
Kidd & Sallie Edmunds & this evening, Miss Powell from Mr. Over-
by's has come up to spend a few days with her Mother & Sister.
Mrs. Powell lost one son last summer in the battle of
Manassas & one this summer near Warrenton Springs the
only two she had. The last one had been killed three
weeks before she heard of it. They were both pious boys
members of the Episcopal church & she is one of the nicest ladies
I ever saw. Mr. Powell is in the war department in Richmond.
Brother Will & family were well when I heard from them.
Mollie has a sore throat but isn't very sick. The rest are well at
Mrs. Duprey. Mrs. D. has a house full of refugees & kin. Margaret
Finly is at Dr. Eggleston's, she looks very sad all the time & makes
herself very miserable about Capt. Finly.
Mr. Kidd is very busy cutting his tobacco he has a very fine
crop though not a large one, has cut three or four [houses?]. The
people around here are selling their tobacco very well ^some at 20$^ & some
are holding for higher prices. Mr. Kidd has sold some of his.
Sister Sue is Dying & hanking & talking about cloth all the
time. Little Frankie grows & fattens & is very sweet she is just
getting to the interesting age but is right much spoiled. She
has been such a delicate child that we all spoil her.
Ma is well as usual but is thinner than she has been
for a long time. I almost forgot to tell you that Mr. Wha-
rey is to be married in the course of a week or two now
to a Miss King a refugee. They say she is vey homely but
very smart. They expect to live at his mothers.
Ma says I must tell you not to write to Nannie to go to Rich-
mond to see you it will be such a little while & it is so
disagreeable travelling. Make haste & get your house built
& perhaps she & I will come down there to the Bluff to see
you. Mollie ^Goody^ Watkins Sue Daniel & Bettie Carter Morton are
staying at Cousin Will's they were at Briery last sunday
all very well & cheerful. I asked [Bet?] about Doc, she [blushed?]
up but said she heard from him last week, & he was on his
way to Maryland. Did you hear that Cousin Dave & Will
Morton bought the Bridge? They gave 29000$ for it.
It is late & I must stop. All join me in love to you & all
of the Cousins. Do you find any use for yarn gloves & would
you like a yarn cap?
Your ever loving Sister,
Pattie
