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Dear Lizzy,


In consequence of leaving Tullahoma rather unexpectedly I did not answer your letter there.  Nor have I had time to do it since in fact am greatly hurried now.  Affairs in Miss. are decidedly of a [blue?] aspect at present.  Gen. Johnston is there - but did not arrive in time, I fear.  ---present having though he may be able to assist us & perhaps turn this tide which has been washing Grant along so successfully.  I saw a letter written by Mrs. Haigh [?] to Mr. Pine [?], a brother of the gentlemen who married June [?] in which she states that Sam had come over, & was there in Va.  She writes in good spirits, & speaks of the sorrows she was enduring, & had endured & at the same time speaks of the handsome presents that June [?] had received – which she seemed to consider a proof of sympathy on the part of the donors.  I hope your Uncle Dick will do something for Sam.  If he does not or cannot I will get him employment in the Q Masters’ Dep [?]– or as clerk in the office up there.  A Genl into here [?].  Yesterday Mrs. Mitchell - Miss Nettie Christian looking very well, & very natural.  It really was a pleasure to see her, as an old resident of Williamsburg, not to speak of my having always had a high opinion of her in all respects – sense, cultivation & amiability.  The gentleman she married is an Episcopal Clergyman of most excellent standing, & apparently very much respected & liked.  He was a widower – his first wife having been a daughter of the late Bishop Cobbs of Alabama.  I do not know if he had any children by his 1st marriage […..]Mitchell or not.  Doctor Richard Wilmer is now Bishop of the State & is, I believe, very popular [?] Montgomery is a very pretty place & has grand society, peculiar in some respects.  I heard a gentleman state that a dinner party mixed perhaps a dozen gentlemen, & half a dozen ladies, the whole party took cigars, ladies & all – the latter enjoying them just as much as the former.  A great many dip, it is stated, though denied quite indignantly.  About Tullahoma [--isping] is practiced openly without any attempt or wish to conceal.  It is practiced in the cars with an appearance of enjoyment it is ludicrous to behold - or would be, if it were not so disgusting.  Some of the fair sex spit, & can spit a chip with an accuracy of aim absolutely astounding to behold.  These accomplishments attach principally to the Tennessee ladies.  At least I have seen more of them practiced in Tennessee than elsewhere – though Miss. & Ala. can doubtless furnish their share, especially in the northern parts of the States.  There does not appear to be much difference between the Darkies here and in Va.  Perhaps there is not so much ----, as I have just seen them on Sunday – they may be as genial [?] in that line too.  There is no lack of mosquitoes.  They grow bigger they say, as you get nearer the Miss. River - & are proportionally ferocious & loud.  It would be difficult to distinguish much of this country from Virginia, though the similarity lessens as you go West, & South, I believe.  There is nothing about your Uncle Dick’s – received orders so far as I have been able to find out.  I suppose he will get them now pretty soon.  It is so [?] incomprehensible what has become of your Uncle William.  He went to [join?] Cousin Lizinka’s farm, & has not since been heard from.  I did not send after him as I expected that he would return each day.  As he is since without even [?] it would not astonish me much to hear he had [requested?] to go to Nashville, or he is [?]-exploring tour, perhaps as far as Baltimore.  When you write -- to me in Montgomery care of Major Alfred M. Barbour Chief Quarter Master of General J. E. Johnston & the letters will be forwarded.  I do not know now where Gen. Johnston’s Headquarters will be established.  Give my love to all friends & believe me to be


Yours affectionately,


Benjamin S. Ewell


Miss Lizzy S. Ewell