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My dearest cousin,
i send this letter in hopes you and all around you are well. I send Big news. no doubt you know of the arrival of my mother sister and brother to your house. But, i regret to inform, i will not be joining them.
I feel it is my duty to help in the war. That and to find my father and brothers. For you know as soon as they got word, they insisted. though i am at a loss. I know not which side they are fighting for, the politics of this war confuse me. i know not which side is right or for that matter which side will win.
Although word has gotten out that if the south wins they will be there own country. That would cause division in our country and i want not of that. But, then again, the union should not tell them of the way they should live their own lives.
Ah, i know not of this war. only that fighting leads to death, and the time that passes in this war, will be a hard for us all.
I will be catching a wagon that is headed farther south. i hope to run into our uncle Jackson, and our cousins Laura and Emily, they are in the second dismounted calvery in the union. Or so i last heard. My greatest concern is my hope chest. i plan to take it with me so i have suitable belongings when i am out on the road. Btu i fear i cannot lift it on my own, so i will always need help. but what can i do i need my dresses, bonnets, gloves, parasol, hat, bowls, silverware, and books. And i know not what i would do with out my writing pen and parchment.
Oh Bell, please keep me in your prayers, i am anxious as ever to be on my own. But i fear for what might happen to me. i leave my self in Gods good care and pray and hope this letter reaches you safely. Write me as soon as mother and the children arrive. i need to know they are safe. Give them a kiss.
Believed me to be, you dear cousin, Miss Rose.
on this day the eighth of in August eighteen-hundred and ninety-two
 darkmotif · Tue Aug 10, 2010 @ 07:26am · 0 Comments |
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