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1Author:  Armentrout, Amanda C.Add
 Title:  Amanda C. Armentrout to William F. Brand, June 3, 1866  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar 
 Description: I received your very dear letter of 24 last Wednesday never was a letter read with more interest than that; it found me enjoying the best of health one of our dear Saveirs best blessing (but how unworthy am I for it) I can say dear brother that I was truly glad to hear from you & do thank my heavenly Father that he put it in your dear good heart to write Willie dear boy I have wronged you will you forgive me I believe I have found forgiveness in the dear Lord but will you forgive for I have been the cause of all this trouble Oh dear brother it will kill me if you dont forgive; just to think that I am the cause of my dear bosom companions being lost, eternially lost. Oh my dear dear Savier pitty & forgive for I will give you my life for the salvation of that dear soul yes dear brother I will spend & be spent for you though the more abundantly I love you the less I be loved; I deserve nothing but your hatred & contempt can I ever be happy again not untill I see the dear one changed yes a Christian. Yes my dear brother if you allow me to call you thus last year you started out with prospects bright & allureing & these were your words Kate I am going to make or brake & for whome for what for an unworthy creture as I (me) that did not deserve the notice of a cat let alone the notice of one so pure so noble so good at heart as thou all went on well prospect bright & brighning grain came in on evry side I must surely be the happiest man living. Oh is this not flattering it is (like) an ideal lover or will be soon but hark I hear a noise & in come a fine looking old gent (Ah the serpent coils in eden bows) Well Mr B dont you want to go in pardnership with me you will make mony at it; at what why haveing your grain distilled I wont go I must make my money some other way my good heart & God sais I must not go Ah come dont listen at that you will make enough soon to get married Ah that is charming well I must wait a while & yes I must go & see K & see what she sais about it Pa & K both oppose dont care so much for Pa but K is the one he lays it all out in flattering terms she said do as you pleas & Mr B sais at last consented & his word goes as far as mine with with me & farther too; he goes back but concience & Pa sais dont go but I am doing it for K when he gets back serpent enters what say you well I dont know I believe I will; well lets draw the article but we must have a dram first no I dont indulge her come going in do such business & dont last & yourself besides you have a cough & it will help it; well K told me to take somthing for my cough & that is the very thing any thing for K all done for K. come Mr B there is a party a head tonight lets go no I dont care about it I just got a leter from K & she is very cold & indifferent she is always writing something about some nice fellow or her dear friend R that I dont blieve she thinks as much of me as she ought I will go & a way he goes come Mr B join in the dance I can't come ah well I will K is perhaps having her fun I will to drove away sorrow Mr B you are very lively to night but it is all put on what is the matter with you well I will tell you I fear my first love is blasted Oh my dear her then thou only knows the agony of that dear heart. Soon the serpent goes to K he has done his will with B he tell her that B has got to drinking she writes a hasty & insulting letter & it insults & wonds B sais I dont care I will go & see her & quit her at once I have done all this for her & this is the thanks I got he comes but love & pitty enters that good heart I will tell her all my bad deeds & she will turn me off but instead it bound her nearer to him & what next the serpent is at work he tell K much & she believes & what is the consecuence God knows she suffers for it but is she a lone no no Oh she ought to be she diserves it all & more but enough of this.
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