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Clarksville May 24th 1864
            Tuesday after breakfast
    Your letter of the 8th, my beloved husband, reached
me only this morning, where it has been all this time no one can tell, but in or
near Richmond, I suppose, as we here had but few mails from that
direction of late.  Like yourself, I have felt very restless under your long
silence, sometimes very eneasy lest you should be sick, sometimes mad,
sometimes grieved.  Nearly three weeks have passed since I last heard
and as the Southern mail has come regularly I could not well
understand why I did not hear from you.  Since these Battles have
been going on you have been enquired for more frequently than me, and
I have had the mortification of confessing that I know nothing about you
save that you were in a safe place.  I presume, all uneasiness about
us has been quieted long ere this, for I have written very frequently,
and it is time too that some of my Darlington [?] should have
reached you.  I do want to see you so much.  When do you think
you can come home again?  The beginning of the end of this war is near,
for surely never such a series of escapes [?] any arms.  In all
directions the cry is Victory - and in Lee's Army so few of our gallant
men in proportion to the loss of the Enemy have fallen.  between fifty
and sixty thousand to fifteen thousand.  Who ever head of such odds.
Surely the Lords of Hosts has gone forth with our armies, and has
battled for us.  Praised forever be his name.  I can learn no parti
=culars.  Our paper no longer comes, and I know not whether my
friends may not have fallen.  Billy Buckley and [?] Bryan
I feel particularly anxious about.  Tom is in Fluvanna a letter from

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Cousin Lizzie tells me.  Helen and myself have abandoned our trip to
Richmond for the present, at least.  I am much disappointed about it.
I wrote you Mr. Bl[?] charged us [?]100.  For his waggon [underlined] and horses to carry
us to the rail road.  Mr Boyd, who is considered a skin flint offered
to take me for nothing as he was going himself, and to make his servant walk
in  order to make room for Sally, and besides invited me to his Father's to
spend the night on my way to the Depot.  Quite a contrast I should say.
Helen and myself together with our little man [underlined], spent last Saturday
at Mr Townes'. We were also invited to dine at Mr Canington's.  There invita
=tion came too late for us [underlined], but Mama accepted it.  Ice cream at both
place.  H- and I came back ladened with flowers.  Dr. W B[?]
and William B. also Mr and Mrs Boyd were of our party at [?]
Dr. and Mrs. Geo [Vinable], Miss Anna V and Mrs Johnson at Surrey
=side.  We regretted very much our prior engagement.  Since I
last wrote we have had another present of asparagus and Butter from
Mrs Skipwith and this morning Mrs. Haskins sent me word to send to
her for milk every day and I could get it.  Truly the people up here are
[?] the kindest I ever saw.  You will be delighted to hear, I am sure,
that the garden is doing well, and promises to repay all my troubles, which
has been great.  The Parsnips have come up badly, I suppose, because I was
particularly anxious that you should have enough of them next winter.  When
we consider that Toby has been the only person who has [?] a in
the garden I really regard the state of affairs as quite wonderful.  I have
,however, engaged a man to come to-morrow to give us a lift, do
many things want attending to at once.  We have nothing to eat out
of the garden yet a while, but some fine lettuce, but tis the corn and tomatoes
that we will have, my mouth waters at the thought.  Could you

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but see our splendid boy how you would enjoy them.  I never saw
anything lovelier than he now is- Picture to yourself, if you can, the
little fellow.  neck and arms exposed, snow white naked but riding
about the yard and garden on a corn-stalk horses with a little
stick for a gun, saying "bang" [underlined] to the Yankees.  His skin ins the faintest I
almost ever saw, and does not burn.  Charley can say any number
of words now, and calls for "meat" with considerable zeal.  I would
enjoy him a thousand times over if his father could see him.  The other
day I said to Mama "I wish his father could see him." and he immediately
said "Doctor".  What say you to that [?]?  I can't spare you any

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more paper to-day.  My supply is nearly exhausted, and when it is I don't
know how I can afford the high price is is now selling at.
Helen says I must tell you, she is wishing to write until the mails
home regular.  Mama says she goes out so little that she has no
message to send, save that she always has plenty of love to send you.
We have entertained a number of South Carolina soldiers since [?]
and some of them perfect gentlemen - but I must wait for my next to
tell you something funny about it.  Do write twice a week please sir ["please sir" underlined]
            Your devoted wife