| | 101 | Author: | Brand Civil War Collection: Brand, William Francis | Add | | | Title: | Brand Civil War Collection: Letter from William Francis Brand to
Amanda Catherine Armentrout, 1867 December 01  | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | As I expect to go to Lexington tomorrow morning if noting occures to detain me. I have been
very well since I parted with you, & very busy grinding up
to late last night. I hope that I may have more leasure this week as I have a good eal
to do. I intend to try & sell Dixie
tomorrow I wroad her to Preac
hing this eavning &
she came very near running away with me. I pricked up &
old bridle that had no curb. I am writing at the house & Rash
& Marion are making so much fuſs that I can not keep
my mind on any subject more than a second.
thare was a letter here to Mrs Willie B wich I took the privalige of opening. it
was from CousJoe I will
sende it with this note I hope that it may find you enjoying good health. I
have often though about your pains. I hope you do not suffer any
more with them. I have so much to do this week that I think it will be
imposible for me to get down before
Saturday week. The time will appear very long to me I am sure. But it will soon run round as I have
a good eal to attend to. I hope my darling will try & be hapy cheerfull &
sadisfied.
oh how often I think of a sigh that escaped you while
I was down last. I hope & pray that some day I may be able to
command any thing you desire. I will close by asking God to protect us
from all
harm I will write again & a longer letter
before I come down. I received a letter from
Bro C he is well
& senthis love to you I will look for a letter in a day or two | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 102 | Author: | Brand Civil War Collection: Brand, William Francis | Add | | | Title: | Brand Civil War Collection: Letter from William Francis Brand to
Amanda Catherine Armentrout, 1867 December 08 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | Irecieved your letter yesterday eavning; was truly glad to hear from my
better half. Indeed I had beagan to be very
ancious to hear from Rose
Dale. espescially one of its ocupan
ts. If it had not been so far & I was
busy I would have made my apperance
aroung the family circle at Rosedale. Indeed it would have
given me a great deal of pleasure to embrace my dear wife. My health is very good with
the ex
ception of the headache today. I have been
suffering with it all morning
But hope it may be well by morning I have been enjoying very good health since I was down. Hope this may find
you still improving & happy
Recieved a letter yesterday eavning from cousin Mollie Colman directed to my Kate wich I as before took the
privalige of opening. I will enclose it in
this to you., Hope you will not
centure me for the privileges I have
taken the letter is very hard to read There may be sense in it but is
hard to get out, I think our Photographs are very good. Yours I am very
much pleased with. the attraction was so
grate that my lips ware
naturally drawn toward it. I bought very little at the sale. evry thing was old & roughſ. I got a dining table but as Ma intends to
give us one I can trade the one I got for a good safe. wich we will need. I got a good coffee
mill & one or two other articles. The chairs ware so indifferent that I would not bid for any. I have laid
in over three hundred lbs of Pork
Made some sosage & rendered out the lard ready for use. So you
need not be scared I will give you plenty of
meat & bread to eat if nothing more & I am sure we
will never starve. In regard to mooving
up. I would rather your Pa would moove us up for it would cost me eight or ten dollars to
get a team to
moove us up. Very likely I could get Bro. J. to
moove us up. I do not know whether he is
busy with his machine or note. I am glad that Sis Ann has not
given up coming up with us. I will find tranportation for you &
her If I do have to drive the cows, I hope the
weather may remain as beautifull as it is
today so that we may not be de layed by bad roads
& inclement weather. Will hope for the best. Nearly dark; my head has quit
aching. I took a short nap this eave
something new withme
Evry time I go to the land of dreams I meet with my absent
Kate It will not be long untill I may realize my night dreams. I will be down
Saturday if thare be no pres
venting providence. Either
Carriage Buggie or horse back. I will
close as it is getting so dark I cannot see how to moove straight acroſs the page. Give my love to one
& all, & reserve a double portion for
your self If you are
writing today I will recieve it before I
come down. Now may bright angels protect the from
all harm is the prayer of your loving husband. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 103 | Author: | Brand Civil War Collection: Brand, William Francis | Add | | | Title: | Brand Civil War Collection: Letter to William Francis Brand from
Jane, 1867 November 02 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | Although this day is sad and dreary, yet my feelings are not in
accordance with it and I am attempting a reply to your last letter. I
have neglected willing longer than I intended. But since I have been so
actively employ-
ed in the exhilarating pleasure of having chills
and other circumstances connected these with, over which I had no
control I know you will heartily forgive the long long delay. I just
tell you I have had a rare time with them. We are all pretty well now, except uncle's health. He is
quite feeble. And I suppose you have found one with whom to share the
simple joys of life. I know she
is May happiness attend thee and thy companion through life
is my kindest wish. I wish I could have been with you all so as to
witness the occasion I know you had quite
a jubilee.I am not married yet. I prefer a single life yet. I
think there is a good many in the war now that would like to get out of it. A married life is not a desirable
one to me. There is no real happiness in it. Time finds me at
home visiting and receiving company occasionally
I expect to teach next session if
I can find a suitablesituation. Money is scarce here. The freedmen
have done very well this year. Cotton is quite low and we have to
give an exorbi- tant price for everything we get. We recieved a letter
from Uncle C last week. He was complimenting you
very highly and also brother J. I often wish I could be with you all. it is a consummation
devoutly to be wished. In referance to me
returning to Va. I can not abhor
the idea of going there with a stranger, yet I don't think there
would be any unpropriety in so doing. I would rather brother
would come after me
if all thinks it best for me to return. I know Uncle Tom is
getting old and feeble, and will be with us but a little while, at the
far his rest . We all will haveto rely on our own resourceHe has even been like afather to
me in everyrespect. I shall ever lovehim although in a
distantland. It will be a sore trialfor me to part with him
anddear old Aunt. They say Ifeel as dear to them as oneof their
children. Theysay they hope I will dowell through life, but
itseems as if the fates areagainst me. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 104 | Author: | Brand Civil War Collection: Brand, William Francis | Add | | | Title: | Brand Civil War Collection: Letter to Amanda Catherine Armentrout
from Jane Brand, 1867 November 02 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | Your welcome let note was received
and I was heartily rejoiced to hear from one whom I can call
sister. I now take you on the list for a new correspondent.I hope
you will continue to write Nothing gives me
more real pleasure than to sit by our cheerful fireside and read
an affecctionate letter from those I so dearly love. I wish I could
make my appearance and be with my earliest and affectionate
friends in old Virginia. I have spent many most pleasant
hours with them and memory shall ever
hold them as clear and sacred I hope you
are agreeably domesticated at home and you now have my warmest
wishes. May Brother make an indulgent husband, and ever speak
kindly. May no cloud ever rise to darken your pathway. I feel very
grate- ful to you for offering me a home with you and brother. No
doubt it would be a pleasant home. I shall
except of it if I be so fortunate as ever go back. Remember me kindly to all my
relations | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 106 | Author: | White, James J. | Add | | | Title: | Letter to James Brooks | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Description: | I am compelled from want of pen and ink to write a line in
pencil—seizing a moment now I may not have it half hour hence. It is
my painful duty to inform you that your son William
died today after an illness of several days which appeared to me
something like conjestion
of the brain. Our brigade has been very much
exposed by forced marches through heat and dust, and by being compelled
to camp out at night without tents, not even the superior officers being
allowed to carry tents from the difficulty of transportation.[1]
I suppose
it would be most agreeable to the feelings of yourself and your boy's
mother that his remains should be taken at once to his home, but we have
been
drawn up
in line of battle this evening[2]
and on application to our colonel[3] he
assured me that it would be impossible to get permission from
Gen.
Johnston[4]
for any one to leave at this time, and I ascertained that
permission had been refused to remove the remains of Lieutenant Patton[5]
of the Rockbridge Grays who died this morning.
And although I had with
considerable difficulty made arrangements for
William's transportation
before speaking to Col.
Preston, I felt forced to abandon it, and have
provided for his decent interment in the Episcopal Cemetery here and
have directed a head board with his name to be provided
so that at
some subsequent time his remains may be removed to the bosom of his
friends. When I discovered that William was sick
I had
him taken to the
Hospital in Winchester which is in Charge of
M. H. Houston, formerly of
Rockbridge, late of Wheeling, where every attention possible under the
circumstances was provided. I have done the best I could my dear Sir
and in communicating with the stricken parents of the most admirable
young man, it is but the simplest justice to say that whether as student
or soldier, I had nothing to complain of him, but believe in my
conscience that he did his duty modestly and conscientiously on every
occasion. Your son Andrew has just mentioned
that the physician thought
the disease of his brother was spinal to the
brain.[6]
Excuse
the unavoidable haste of this letter, for I am hurried in every way
imaginable.
We are expecting the enemy here at any moment and I believe
that we are able to meet them. With assurances of kind regards and
sincere sympathy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 108 | Author: | Brooke, M.L. | Add | | | Title: | Brooke family correspondence Assen.No.38 137 | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Description: | I fancy you at the Powhatan
to night and I hope that instead of one
letter you
will get two from me, there must be some
irregular
-ity in the mails. I have never failed to write you
twice a week and you ought to have receivd a letter
before you left Richmond — for St. Julian
— if you get
both letters you will acknowledge the recip't of them—
oh how delighted I should have been at an unespected
visit from you and I could not help feeling
disappointed
that you thought of coming and did not do so but
I think you acted wisely — I
know if you had consulted
your inclination alonethat you would
have spent
your Christmas with us. You see I am
not jealous
but I eny Pa his happiness— and hope you had a
pleasant trip— I am alone with
no other company
than John and Juliet— M & V. are at their Grand
Pa's I am lonely enough but I was afraid to keep
Margaret at home least she should incur then
Grand Pa's
displeasure, She told him that I would
be alone and it
seem'd to
fret him and I've linquis
-hed my claims at once, tho'
reluctantly I aſsure you
they will be gone all week I expect Juliet tomorrow
or the next day I wrote to Father that I
should keep
him here— Sandy Stuart writes that she was
much admired
in Washington Staunton
is very dull I never knew
it as much so as this season— Mr Hamilton
was here a few days ago Judge Baldwin examined
him and he is now at Judge Smith's will be
here tomorrow night— he has concluded
to settle
in Lexington after a visit to Lynchburg—
he has many schemes to numerous to
mention
in a letter thinks that he can keep house on
less than he can board for— which
is 300
Dollars— they
will beat me in management
if they do and hire servants—
Mat will not be
down this winter——our servants are all hired
to the institutions Mary and Ann—
we get 40 dolars
for it is the best home for them I think I did
not consult Ann;— I hold Joe at 120 dollars and
expect to get it— he remains
at the hospital they
can't do without him and must pay for
him—
John will bring the same—
Beverly
has not come
I expect him this week— Charlotte will be
here
tomorrow— I never had as little
anxiety about hiring
the servants— and never did better— Doct.
Berkeley
has all this on his hands and no homes for them
yet— I was there today delivered
your message—
but he did not say that you should get more
things I suppose he will write if he
still
wants them—my groceries have not arrived yet—
I will write as soon as I get them—you would
laugh if you could take a peep at my table
with two plates and cups on it—me at the head
and John at the foot— doing like
pa he says
he is very attentive to my wants and says if I
write you that he is a bad boy he will tane
the
letters up. he wants to send you some ginger
cakes for a Christmaſ gift— Juliet
says yet I want
to see my Pa—She wont forget you
She improves
daily I think—they rise every morning before day light
and are as merry as crikets—
the airtight stove
is the greatest comfort to us we manage it
better
this winter and I could not do without
it.
Some
cold mornings I sit all day in the dining
room which is very comfortable the
stove burns
much less wood than the fire place
place did and
is much warmer—do write often
devote all your
leisure moments to me this is asking very little—
when you have so few— I think
of you all the
time. I will write you by Judge
Baldwin
—
Sister Beverly says do send your love to her
sometimes
I tell her that I cannot share your
love with
any
body— She thinks me very selfish.— | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 116 | Author: | Brooks Collection: Brooks, Charles | Add | | | Title: | Letter to Eleanor Stuart Brooks | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Description: | I hope you have received the letter sent
off on yesterday. When I left home I thought perhaps
I would have returned before this; but instead of that
we are getting further away and I hope gaining an im
portant victory for the Confederacy. Our division of
the army was pretty quiet on Saturday and Sunday, but
a pretty hard battle occured Sunday evening, to
our right, on the York River Railroad about eight
miles below Richmond.
Gen. Hills
division was the
principal one engaged. Early this morning all
Jackson's troops crossed the
Chickihomany
and all
the army are following up the enemy; for I should
have stated that he was again whipped on
yesterday. We crossed the battle field on this mor
ning! There were many dead and for miles the coun
try wa
is strewn with knapsacks blankets over-
coats and various other articles.
Squads of prisoners
have been coming in all day and probably five or six
hundred have been captured. I saw five about three
hundred captured horses and mules this morning. The enemy
have crossed a stream fourteen miles below Richmond
and blown up the bridge, and heavy cannonading
has been going on this evening across the stream.
Time is important for them in order to get
commisary stores out of the way. If it were not for
his Gunboats McClelland might find some
dif
ficulty in finding a
place of rest on Virginia's soil.[1]
We havn't seen our wagons for five days and have
lived principally on hard bread and havn't
been
particular about clean sheets or the abundance of
our covering. It is now about sundown and I
will stop; but probably add somthing more before I
mail it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 119 | Author: | Brooks Collection: Brooks, Andrew | Add | | | Title: | Letter to Emmet Brooks | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Description: | Your letter was
received yesterday evening.
I had mailed one to you in the
morning. I have had very little
opportunity to make the inquiries you
wish. I have been on road detail
to day (making corduroy road to
Guinney's[2])
and have to go again to
morrow, so you see it will be
impossible to go to Guinney Station
before Monday, if indeed I can go then.
I suppose you were led to believe, that
large profits could be made on skillets
from having heard us speak of having to pay
12 or 15 dollars for one. If you could get
that price, it would pay very well, but
I do not think you could get it; unless
you could get them to the different
brigades of the army and sell them there,
in which case, I think they would bring
12 dols'. The sutlers
[3]
of regiments do not
buy them at all, so far as I can hear, unless
they get orders for them. As for the
Sutlers at the Station, I can not speak
positively, but think they act in the same
way. The day you went up, McKee
[4] failed
to get one, but got the promise of one soon, if
he would leave 10 dols, his name etc, which
he would not do. However I am of the
opinion that you might sell them there
for 8 dollars apiece, in lots of 20, or 30,
and it might be as many as 60.
I think there would be no risk in you
staying a few days, at the Station. But you
know there is no accomodation there, and no
place to keep them. I got the box that night.
It was a treat, I tell you, but you will know that
after the sight of it. The coffee is delicious.
McKee got his furlough next day and started
in about an hour. John D. got his too,
and went Monday. I want you to send me a
tin plate by him. If you buy skillets, you
ought to do it at once while the army is
lying quiet. A good many soldiers have been courtmartialed
in the brigade. Several were publicly whipped today, and
four others .
Haven't heard the sentences of the
Killians[5]. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 120 | Author: | Brooks Collection: Brooks, Andrew | Add | | | Title: | Letter to Eleanor Stuart Brooks | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Description: | Your letter by Jimmy
Burns[2] was received this evening.
Charles' letter came yesterday, after
looking for a letter for a week. I had
begun to think you had forgotten me, it
was so long coming. He mentioned
that Johny had gone to
somewhere (but
didn't say where) except that I would no
doubt see him before I got his letter.
He didn't tell me what he had gone for,
or anything about it, nor did you except
that he sent to Genl
Lee a recommendation
for my detail. What sort of a thing is
it and who recommended me. I suppose
he was in Richmond and took the contract to
the war office. I havn't gotten the letter
you
say he wrote me and have never gotten
but one letter from him since I left. I have
been very anxious to hear from him, and
know what is doing at the Furnace. It will
now soon be time it was put in blast.
When I commenced writing I had just
returned from preaching, which we have
every night. Dr.
Hoge[3]
and Mr. Lacy
[4] are gone.
There is a chaplain with each regiment of
the brigade, two Presbyterians and three
Methodists. Lieut
Culton[5] has resigned -
unable to stand infantry service. I dont
know who will get his place, if his resignation
is accepted. We heard considerable firing
across the river yesterday, but havent heard the
cause. Wednesday morning, I will get
the box today -am very much
obliged to you all for it -I am not
much afraid of it being much like
what y I get here, there is but one place
I ever saw that I got such rations.
I am sorry Miss Sue Harden is about to
leave the neighborhood -young people
are sadly scarce there. Emmett is on another
trip to Uncle John's, wonder if he
will get ther
this time. I heard Mary Susan
[6] was to atttend
a small party at Dr.
Dold's -a kind of farewell
to Jim[7]
I suppose. I am very well. Love to all
the friends. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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