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21Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 9 February 1862  
 Published:  2001 
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 Description: "Grays Ohio is deficient in paper mills" will be the first exclamation which passes Charlies's lips on the receival of this. I did notknow that I was sovery destitute of paper until I went to my desk and lo! sheet was to be found but I feel lonesome and thought I would resort to some remedy The best one I have know of, or the best one within my reach is this one. Your "good works" of the 26th & 28th arrived the same day, friday. It isalmost useless to tell you they were joyfully received for that would not expess onetenth part of my feelings.
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22Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, February 9, 1862  
 Published:  2004 
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 Description: How the mind will wander, when alone, and what is more natural, than that it should stray “way off” to dear, absent friends. But I am quite confident that it is not Natural as it used to be but, one loved friend, engrosses the wandering thoughts of Addie.
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23Author:  Case, Adlaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, February 11th, 1862  
 Published:  2001 
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 Description: I guess you will not complain because I do not write often enough. for I have sent you a letter every"mail day" for a good while. But I go upon the principle that the oftener I write the oftener I recieve and therefore I shall write real often
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24Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, February 13th, 1862  
 Published:  2001 
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 Description: Art happy to night my darling: I trust you are, and comfortable too. It would seem almost impossible to be comfortable this cold night, but as I have been riding all the afternoon.and I feel the cold more for that. Dora and I went to Claridon1 tuesday and returned to day. We had a pleasant ride and also visit, but my thoughts would wander from my ride and even from the beautiful
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25Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1862 February 19  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: I can not refrain from penning you a few lines even if my worthy teacher should censure me for I am now in the schoolroom. So long a time has elapsed since I have received any thing from you that I fear you are ill. Oh! I had such a strange dream last night. I shudder even now when I think of it. You are lying ill and delirious where I could both see and hear you. You calling for me and yet I could not go to you. I struggled long earnestly and in vain, but there seemed some great obstacle between us which I could not surmount. And the more aggravating it was that these, were all whom I had ever had the least feeling of anger toward making me. One thing makes it almost laughable. Col. Tyler was one of them. I awoke completely exhausted and - do not laugh, dearest - weeping. Be assured, my darling, there was no more rest for me. Why bless your dearest. I have not read a letter from you for two weeks, and it is no wonder that such dreams, as the above come to torture me when you, before, have written so often.
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26Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, February 23rd, 1862  
 Published:  2001 
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 Description: A welcome letter was there dearest brought by fridays's mail It had been long and earnestly looked for by anxious and, sometime tearful eyes, I could not refrain from thinking, pretty loud, Heart! welcome messenger of love, when it was handed, me I must tell you how or rather what a joyful disappointment, it produced
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27Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, Feb. 25th, 1862  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Nettletoncivilwarletters 
 Description: Again has my heart been gladdened by one of your "angel visits" how very interesting my letters must be. "Angel visits"! indeed, if mine are such to you, wonder what yours are to me. Well dear one, I am gratified if they interest you for I had thought myself incompetent.
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28Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 12 March 1862  
 Published:  2001 
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 Description: I can wait no longer for a letter from you. but must continue to keep you my debter.. I must ask you dear one the same question which you asked me in the winter Have I offended you the reason that you do not write? Almost two weeks have fled since I recieved your last "angel visit.." Do you know how sad and lonely I feel when such a long time passes with out hearing from you? Darling, please write often.. I should love to recieve letters from you daily..
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29Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, March 14, 1862  
 Published:  2004 
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 Description: What can be more lovely than this day. warm as the summer days generally are and the more beautiful because it is March.. Can you see me. Charlie sitting here on the root of a maple tree about two feet above the little brook that is south of Auntie's house? Here I have been sitting dreaming and listening to the babbling of the little stream till it sounded like sweet music. and then commenced talking to me of absent loved ones. occasionally looking at the sun that is peeping through the soft haze which envelopes it. until--well something struck me. the thought that I would go to the house and get my writing desk. When I started back.. I caught up Titcombs "Lessons in Life," and here it lies on the mossy bank by my side. Oh! who is not a lover of Nature.. the true mother of all beauty.. Here I can sit and dream for hours. with no companion but the little birds that are even now singing among the not leafy but leafless boughs above my head. And of what am I dreaming. do you ask? Of what could I be dreaming save my Charlie.. It does seem like "fairy land" wonder if I could not see their footprints up on the hill. How I wish I was an artist would not I draw some grand sketches.. Or if you were. but here. I presume I would have you installed immediately.. Oh. Charlie. what is there now to hinder you from coming home. Manassas. Winchester. and all of the prominent places that are in the possession of our troops. I can see no objections why you can not come I do wish to see this must be to those whose friends have gone. What can ever give them strength to bear the great grief but the hope of meeting them in death..
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30Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, March 23, 1862  
 Published:  2004 
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 Description: Do I not deserve - am I not worthy of a letter from my idol? This is not a tear.. I hope my tears are not quite so black as that ugly spot I can see no other reason why I do not recieve a letter. Dear one please tell me in what way I have offended you for I am sure that I have. or you would have written ere this. I have given my letters a review in my thoughts but do not know what I could have written to cause you to not write, unless it was the remark I made respecting your sending me Miss Holcombs letters. Dear Charlie I did not intend to write any thing in that, or any other letter to alienate your affections from me. Darling will you forgive me if I have done wrong? Oh, I can not believe. dearest. that such is the case. Charlie. would that you knew Addies heart you would know that she could not willingly wound your feelings. Two long weeks have fled since I recieved your last. I more like two months. I heard that the "3rd Brigade" had moved but did not learn where it had gone. nevertheless I shall continue directing to the "Valley of Virginia" until recieving instructions to direct in some other direction. I am at home now. I came home friday last. "our folks" were quite anxious for me to come. and I came. Do not wonder, my darling, that I did not feel very desirous about coming. for how could I. but hush! do not allow me to write to you in a discontented tone.
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31Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, April 1, 1862  
 Published:  2004 
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 Description: Heaven reward you and bless you, my own my dear darling Charlie for your kind and precious letter of the 25th inst.. Darling, you do not know how much it relieved my heart. of an almost sinking fear and pain. Although it relieved me of my worst fears, yet it brought painful information that you did not escape unharmed.
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32Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, April 8, 1862  
 Published:  2004 
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 Description: Happy very happy was I last night when father handed me your letter of - well I do not know when it was written. for it was dated so many times I think it not necessary for me to fill this sheet with expressions of joy and pleasure. because I was so fortunate as to recieve another of your darling missives. so I will allow you for this time to imagine it.
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33Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, April 13, 1862  
 Published:  2004 
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 Description: Would you not like to converse a short time with Addie this mor- ning? Perhaps I can not be quiet long enough to write much of a letter. for I heard this morning. that Hallieis over to Auntie's and I wish very much to see him. I do not know whether he will come over home or not. I presume I can be more contented when writing to you than any other way.. I do not feel very contented any way to day. the battle of Pittsburg Landing has occupied my thoughts most of the time since thursday. How frightful! I have been reading the particulars of it this morning. and it causes me to tremble. I would so like to know if you are safe to day dear Charley I feel so lonely and sad to day that all manner of thoughts enter my mind. Perhaps it is wrong but I sometimes wish that you were not in the army. but I feel that it is your duty to be there, therefore I will try and be reconciled. I do not wish to discourage you dear one, but my heart sometimes rebels.
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34Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1862 April 16  
 Published:  1999 
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 Description: This day is too pleasant to have work associated with it. Therefore I devote myself to something more congenial, which some- thing, always is a pleasant pastime.
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35Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, April 20th, 1862  
 Published:  2001 
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 Description: Do not think dear one that I address you thus merely as a salutation for I feel that you are precious to me. The reason that I write the word "precious" as I do,, your apologies for addressing me by endearing names shall I say troubled me[;] I was surprised darling. almost pained when I read your letter I had not thought of confining myself to the rules of etiquette when writing to you. nor do I think I ought: I always speak as I feel and generally obey the dictations of my heart; Have I not done right? those that I loved I always have my own form of addressing them by irrespective of etiquette. I love to be called by pet names,, shall I tell you what Hal and papa used to call me: Hal's pet name for me was"Birdie" and father's (dont laugh now) was"Whip-stalk,," When a child I was very slender and quite tall, hence papa called me by that"tender" expression. I just asked father (he is here at aunties) if he remembers what he used to call me. He replied that he did,, but does not think I am much of a whip stalk now. that I am now more of a chub. Ha ha you say that not more than a week passes without writing to me. How strange! Last week I received two letters from you the first time I have received one from you oftener than in ten days and sometimes much longer for two months I guess. Charlie dear, would you have thought me doing right if I had engaged a school and gone on - commenced teaching &c, without speaking to you in regard to any future occupations? Truly you would not have wished me to. You say "you found the bitter with the sweet" while teaching. I have considered all this but is it not always so in life; and should I not teach because I will find perhaps a few unpleasant days? I think I shall love teaching.
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36Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, May 5, 1862  
 Published:  2001 
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 Description: My "first day" in teaching has passed and here am I in my room at Mrs. Leslie's seated as quietly as you please giving my "soldier boy" the "perticelars" What a splendid landscape! I presume that even more beautiful are the scenes which you have witnessed within a year than are those on the banks of the little "Cuyahoga" but without any exceptions it is the lovliest place that I ever was in Oh! Charlie you must come home and draw a sketch of this romantic little place. Just as if I did not want you to come to see me. As I went to my"home"this morning. half a dozen little faces - although quite early - peeped out to get a sight of the new"school ma'am." What queer specimens of human nature! I could hard -ly keep back the laugh that made my side ache. (Bless me what language!) to hold [unclear] in. Some little fit of mischiviousness would seize hold of [unclear] one of them and they would turn to perform the act when lo! my eye would chance some how, to be looking right that way when oh! what a penitent reverential look the little fellow would cast at me . guess I couldn't give him a reprimand! Is not a school room the place to study human nature! I have some ladies as old as myself attending school. one Lillie Armstronglives in the same house with Mrs Leslie. I have a class in algebra. I am real glad that my scholars are so far advanced for they may learn me something. Dorasits here by me. she has just recd a letter from one of her friends Miss Anna Williams. Why could not I receive a letter from Charlie. By the way darling three weeks [unclear] ago next friday was the last "happy day" that I have had. for you know that I am not truly happy only while hearing from you I can not censure you for not writing oftener for I know how the"blockade" interferes with my happiness. I have been teasing Dora to write to you but she is afraid it will not be acceptable. Oh: Charlie write Laurareal often wont you my darling? She will be so lonesome now as Addie is not with her to drive off the blues. Charlie do you hear that noise? The frogs over in yonder millpond are having a regu -lar jubilee. I guess they dont know what fearful state our country is in. Oh: any thing but war. When men fight to quell a rebellion or to cease some awful wrong it is just but when they fight as some of the rebels seem to [unclear] only to kill it is horrible. What a strain of thoughts those disagreeable frogs have led me into. I will try to drive it away. I do not know of any news that has transpired in Mecca but that Jim Beebe has moved out of town strange to say he does not seem to be missed.
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37Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, May 6th, 1862  
 Published:  2001 
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 Description: With a thankful heart I recieved your precious letter tonight of the 28th? and cheer- fully devote myself to the pleasure of answering it. I wrote ou last eve informing you that I had commenced my school. You are mistaken, dear one, I shall always be "Addie" at least I hope that to you I shall. No difference if they do add the appel -lations of "Mistress," "Teacher" yet from under these coverings a strong semblance of Addie may be recognizable. Yes darling, you heard aright in your fanciful vision when you imagined hearing a chap- ter read from the Bible. I should not feel my-self worthy the name of teacher, if I could not open my school with a chapter from God's Holy Book. I also have my scholars learn a verse from some portion of the Bible, which they may choose and repeat just before the close of school.
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38Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1862 May 16  
 Published:  2004 
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 Description: Who would have thought when I wrote you last that more than a week would elapse before I should write you again. But how fast time does fly. I know you will forgive me darling for you know how little time a teacher gets to write especially where they "board around." I should have written sunday but I attended church both in the daytime and evening and between the meetings I wrote to Hal. I recieved your letter of the 11th and 22nd of April last evening. Laura forwarded them from Mecca Had I not heard from you since then I should be real anxious for you wrote that you was not well, but I can hardly conceal my anxiety now for I have recieved but one letter from you since I commenced my school with the exception of the one I read last eve. You are not ill are you dearest? I feel confident that you would let me know if you were. (I am writing in such a hurry this morning as it is almost school time) I was very thankful for your lettersalthough written so long ago, besides one from Laurie accompaniament there Indecent (how correct that is spelled) Dear Charlie you seem to be quite eloquent in your praises of your "Ohio girl" I do not blame miss Rice for replying to you that I was not pretty, for I too think you must look with a partial eye, for I can trace no expressions of beauty in my ugly phyg. although I — don't try much. I dont see how she could "hate Yankees" after conversing with you, I would not. Yes darling I am proud of it, I mean that I am a Yankee, and if you should ever see her again please tell her "that the Yankee girls" would not only sacrifice home friends, dear friends but even lie to protect their country and their flag. Oh Charlie how I should love to see a regt of ladies armied equipped and ready for battle, but that we must remain at home and donate a little to the "Aid society," every week while our friends and protectors fall and die alone with no friend near. Oh it makes me so indignant. But what could we do? Do! we could fight, fight like patriots as we are, but perhaps you will say you guess our patriotism would cool down by the time we march one or two thousand miles, strong if it unclear!
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39Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, May 18, 1862  
 Published:  2004 
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 Description: Few, very few are the days which I have spent equal to this. I am not happy to day, darling, far from it in fact. I am not well. A violent headache has clinnig to me all day, which added to the oppressiveness of the atmosphere makes me feel miserable.— Oh! what a refreshing breeze has just swept by — and then almost two weeks have passed since I recieved the letter that you wrote last. Dearest why do you not write ofterer would that you know how much happiness your darling letters brought; and how unhappy I feel when so long a time passes without recieving one. Do you hear that music Charlie? Grand isn't it? It is down stairs in the parlor. Who is it do you ask? Libbie Armstrong one of my scholars. (Did I mention that two families live in this house.) She has just played and sang, "Red, White, and Blue". I imagine I can see Charlie, my best and truest friend bearing that glorious flag on to liberty. Go on dear one, the prayers and blessings of Addie attend thee. Listen to those sweet strains another piece she is performing now, How quickly will music draw the heart to its gentle accents. What language is in music. Do you see the great tears which almost throws these lives into obscurity. It is not sorrow that brings them now, but it is the influence of that gentle music. Leibbie is not a good player neither is she a good singer but I am just far enough away to have it sound more like the chanting of angels than like the effect of a human being's voice and hands. I promised in my last to give you my experience in “boarding round” the second night. In my “experience” that I gave you last, I think in fact, I know I gave you the wrong date. It was the 1st and I gave you the 14th did I not? All for the sake of contrast here goes,
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40Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, May 26th 1862  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Nettletoncivilwarletters 
 Description: My school room is unoccupied with the exception of one lonely being and how thankful she is to obtain that solitude for which she has all day wished, But is it right for her to be alone? Alone to those torturing thoughts which cling to her sleeping or waking. and which nothing but a letter from that idolized being can drive away? Oh Charlie! My own loved one. if it is in your power. why do you not break the silence between us Three long lingering weeks have passed since last I heard from you and God only know how much longer time will pass before I shall. Are you ill darling and not able to write. If so why not let me know. I could bear that Or - Oh. no I will never write that thought, If I did I should feel every letter sinking into my heart. as if written with a pen of fire, Ah! those tears thank heaven for them,, But they are but few to what I have shed over my dreams. The thoughts while waking are not enough to torture my poor heart but dreams. frightful dreams! Oh I can not think of them, If the cruel monster Death - My God must I write it - has done his work. why do I not know it for then yes then. I might die. Die! Ah. what is death to this fearful suspense. It is nought. And then I might meet my idol, Here again I am thinking that it must be so. just as my dreams picture to me. and not only thinking but writing it, Is this madness? or is it caused by short And yet at times sharp pain around my heart
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