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1Author:  Shields, Maggie E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Maggie Shields to Kate Armentrout, March 4, 1862  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar 
 Description: I have been promising you a letter for more than a fortnight, but have neglected writing until this late period, though doubtless it will be quite unexpected to you even now as it is almost entirely unwonted for those at home to introduce a correspondence with an absent friend; but you know as hard times increase, all precedent customs as well as general formality diminishes & as I deem my "own dear self" a miss of self-competence sufficient to be governed by momentary impulses I will preface a fashion which I anticipate will remain unimitated though hope not depreciated, if it be a breach of former civility or etiquette if you please. Well, Kate I scarcely know what to communicate first; as I am aware you hear directly from the neighborhood that so frequently that you receive the news almost as early as myself; suppose from what I have learned that your fruition has been dazzling in the zenith of its magnificence during your visit up to the present time; & presume it will not cease to continue as long as parties, are the fashion & Valley Rangers, with plenty of "Tobacco" are the Chorus in your "Town"; Oh! I have a great desire to hear from you. There has no material change occurred within the limits of our vicinity since you left us, we still experience the alternations of joys & greifs which we have been accustomed to almost daily since the war commenced; we, in accordance with the dictates of the Sacred writings rejoice in time of victory & grieve when conquered. Suppose you have heard the particulars attending our friend John Lightner's sickness & death; he died wishing us all to meet him in heaven, which should be our unwearied endeavor & consequently our final end. You had my heart-felt sympathy upon hearing the melancholy news; but this Providence like theirs should be weighed with the balance of humiliation, as the loss of one is the gain of another.
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