| | 1 | Author: | Tenney, Charles N. | Add | | | Title: | Letter from Charles N. Tenney to Adelaide E. Case, 26 September 1862  | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Nettletoncivilwarletters | | | | Description: | Very many days have elapsed since I last indited a letter to you, but you have been by
no means forgotten, but while we have been tramping over the hills and vales of
"sacred Virginia," and "Maryland, my Maryland," my mind has
often wandered away up "where the water tastes like ile," and
delighted itself in calling up hours never to be forgotten. But this is not telling
you why I have not sooner written. Since we evacuated Cullpepper on
the 19th of August, until we came
to this point, (the 23d inst.) we have been constantly engaged in
all the duties and troubles of an arduous cam- paign. When the
rebels performed that astounding feat of outflanking the seat of war itself, we lay in a
state of fancied security on the Rappahannock, never dreaming that two weeks later we
would be fighting in Maryland, yet the deed was accomplished,
and even Fredericktown a union city was invested and infested by
a subtle and cunning foe. Of course, Maryland must be
liberated,
and who should do it, but the "Splendid Army of
Va." Thus by a series of "forced marches," adroit escapes from a surrounding enemy,
and "brilliant reconnoissances," we were transferred over into MD. hitherto to be known
as "Capital defense army," and we have accomplished the task. — Maryland
is free from rebel tread, though pol- luted by rebel dead. We
have fought the battles of South Mountain and Sharpsburg, and the rebel army went
out of Maryland 40,000 weaker than it entered. We — our Corps d'armee - occupy Loudon Heights below the far famed town of Harper's Ferry,
and from the elevated position we occupy. we naturally feel above
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