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1Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1861 August 10  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: You will see by this, that I am at Laurie's school, and feeling rather idle & thought I would endeavor to find the where abouts of an almost neglected friend. I say neglected, for the reasons that I have written but once and then directed Camp Dennison. I afterward learned that you left about the time I wrote. If you did not receive that letter you undoubtedly think, Addie does not keep her promise very well. But I will hie away to other and more interesting subjects
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2Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 3 October 1861  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Nettletoncivilwarletters 
 Description: I have heard gentlemen make the remark that when ladies began to write with a lead pencil to them, they guessed she wished to discontinue their correspondence But when you receive this, written with a pencil and on such paper I imagine that you will think worse than that, but do not harbor the thought for one instan dear Charlie that my feelings are such for indeed they are not I have no other paper, and my pens have all “got poor” therefore you will excuse this will you not? for I thought it necessary to write immediately as Capt. Aspen is in Warren and I do not know as I will get a chance to send again, nor do I know when he returns to war. Where are you to day are you engaged in some bloody battle or are you reposing in security in your tent or on some bed of sickness. How often my thoughts thoughts been with you to day There seems to be a presentiment of evil hovering round me, and my thoughts are with Hal and yourself, Can it be that you are in danger and some rebel strike—God forbid. I must dispel such thoughts. But would that I were near you. then I could feel that let come what might I would know all. I have a sad and gloomy spirit to day not much like the gay and joyous Addie that Hal used to tell about but lasteveI was to a sewing bee for the soldiers. and I caused a strange feeling to thrill through me which is hard to dispel
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3Author:  Tenney, CharlesAdd
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 12 October 1861  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Are your thoughts
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4Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 16 October 1861  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Is not Addie rather dilatory about writing to her absent but never forgotten friend? If you knew how busy she had been you would not wonder. We have been bereft of a kind and dear old uncle during the week and I have just returned from his funeral You doubtless, while in NC heard of “Old Squire Sperry” as he was called We feel his loss most deeply but still we could not wish to prolong his stay and see him suffer as he has during the past month
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5Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, October 27 1861  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: I again had the pleasure of perusing one of your kind and interesting letters last saturday and I can assure you that it afforded much pleasure. Charlie if you could witness the eagerness with which I grasp your letters you would not hesitate to leave your work to write to me. But of course I would not ask you to if you could not do so with convenience. I think you must have received another letter from me since you wrote about the 12th of this month. This is a beautiful day rather cool but not more so than we should expect for the season. Mr. James Beebe of Ohio Seventh is here. I do not feel so much like entertaining him as I do Tenney of said Regt and therefore act accordingly. He is trying to guess who I am writing to
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6Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1861 December 7  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Do you not think I should be thankful for the long list of letters I have received from Mr. Tenney during the past two months? Have you not written to me? I think I have not been the happy recipient of one letter from my friend Charlie since Capt. Aspen returned to his company. I thought it strange. If Hal had not been with you I should have thought you was ill.
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7Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, December 26, 1861  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Thanks for your kind and welcome letters which have but lately recd. I am surprised that you have not heard from me for so long a time. I have written, I may say, weekly I do not doubt but that some letters are at Charleston I have not written but one since I heard that you had left Charleston owing to the fact that I did not know your address But away to other subjects. I have just been to tea, wished very much that you had been here to partake.
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8Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, January 1st 1862  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Here you sit right before me and now for a good long conversation. I recieved your welcome gift yesterday, I can assure you that it was a very acceptable Christmas gift. I can thank you much better when I see you than now.
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9Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1862 January 10  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Your list of unanswered letters shall be diminished by one if Addie's pen and hand can accomplish the work. But I fear that it will be a difficult task this morning. How is Hallie? I trust he is better. why Charlie you do not know how alarmed I was about my brother.
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10Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 12 January 1862  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Are you of the opinion that it is wrong to indulge in letter writing on the sabbath? What ever maybe your thoughts that is one of my failings, if failings it may be called. Although I have written once to Charlie since I received a letter from him I thought, as I was writing to Hallie, that I would end a few lines to my "second brother". I wrote you a few lines and sent by John Chaffee or Joe Davis.
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11Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 26 January 1862  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Addie apologizes for not responding sooner to Charlie's previous two letters. She has read in the newspaper that Gen. McClellan is not granting furloughs and Addie is disappointed in not being able to see him. Charlie had sent her poetry, presumatively love poetry. Addie writes that she always wishes that she could be a poetess and that she sees poetry everwhere in life and nature. Finally, Addie comes to the main point of her letter. She claims that she sees Charlie only as a brother, not a lover. She is conflicted over her feelings, hurting Charlie, and the impact on family and friends. Laurie (Addie's brother) has been playing a song, "Heart be still" in the background, and it has Addie's emotions riled up. Addie hopes that Charlie does not take her letter badly for she does not wish to hurt him. She points out that loving him as a brother places him in the highest esteem, and that it is not an empty and cold declaration. Laurie finishes his music and wishes Addie to go with him to a prayer meeting, so Addie closes the letter praying that a guardian angel watch over Charlie.
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12Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1862 February 2  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Did you ever behold such a beautiful sabbath day as this one? I feel more like working out of doors and shouting for joy, than sitting in silent admiration, as civilized people are pleased to call it. But I don't believe they enjoy the beauty one half as much as they would if they were as free as birds. Oh, anything for me but sitting in the house so prim and formal saying just such words, as if they had memorized them, and if you chance to say anything else, blush as if you had been caught in the act of stealing Why, Charlie my darling I believe human beings wander as far from nature as from God. But you, will say is this from Addie, such a commence- ment for a letter from Addie? I presume that is the fact, does it not agree with your sentiments? Charlie, You do not know the disappointment I shall experience if you do not come home when HalliecomesI had stored away so much pleasure for your return, thus it is with life. How suddenly and cruelly can our brightest hopes be dashed. But I truly hope thus that hope will rise soon. I saw Mrs. Benton at a donations party last tuesday evening, and judge of my surprise when she told me that, her husband recieved a letter from Charlie Tenney. She told me that she heard from Hal, I asked her, how she heard
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13Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1862 February 4  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Do you know how sweet those three word sound to me? and also how dear? No wonder I love to linger on these words but I must turn to other subjects. I must give you an account of my "days works." I have been engaged, (I think) in a good work to day.. not as noble a work as you are engaged in, but it is the best that I could do. I have been to the "Soldiers Aid Society" working real hard Do I hear your approval? Oh: how I wish you could have been there.. It is really amusing to see old and young gathered in the "Union Hall" for the benefit of the soldiers. Here in one corner of the "Hall" sits a group of "Mecca Belles" busily sewing bandages or some garment or perhaps "scraping lint." I hope you will never see that, and in another place sits the "young married people" engaged in the same way, while the olderlaidies are standing over the table and stove cooking chickens to send to the hospitals, What a dreadful night last night was for the four "chickees" A perfect massacre Bye the way Charlie do you not think it a wise idea, that of canning chickens for the sick soldiers, now when some supplies arrive from Cleveland for the hospital just "play sick" a little while long enough to get some "Mecca goodies" But Charlie will not do so will he? dont mind me this time, Dear Charlie, do you wonder at my little simple letters. Laurie has just been here and she would readit I know just by the smile she had on her face that she thought there was simplicity enough about this, and perhaps a slight attack of silliness. May be so but I have tried to make my letters as cheerful as possible so that you would not get homesick. Let Laurie look if she wantstoo, do you care?
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14Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 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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15Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1862 July 17  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Nettletoncivilwarletters 
 Description: Even to old Mecca your precious letter found its way and how joyfully I received and read it. Dearest, while reading your noble and true thoughts I can hardly realize that hun dreds and hundreds of miles separate us. I seem to see you and listen to your darling words. your presence seems ever near me strengthening me to bear this ordeal through which I am passing - our separation. But I sat down to answer your letter. How sorry I was dear that you could not obtain a leave of absence. I read the order prohibitting furloughs - even to the sick and wounded. I think it too bad Dost wonder dearest that I read it with a sinking heart. Now Charlie you must be very very careful in regard to your health for should you be taken ill, the blessed boon of "coming home" would be refused and think you I could live knowing that Charlie was ill and suffering : no never! I am glad that you have some more favorable approximation of writing for I have missed your welcome letters very much but darling after g receiving such a reproof I trust I shall never again be guilty of scolding you even if you do not write but once a month. Your rebuke was the more affectual because it was given so quietly but I will try never to mind one again. Am I not a good girl for promissing so readily ? Wait and see how well I fullfil it. So be sure darling. I should love to receive the __ kiss but I should prefer receiving it from a different motive No, no dearest I do not needlessly suffer on account of you and Hallie for if you and Hal should be taken away what oh what would be life ? A wilderness deprived of all its charms?. Do not call it needless anxiety Oh! what a letter her Hal wrote me a few days since. He says "Addie", Charlie is very dear to you, so is your brother but rather than pro- tract this war by a final defeat at Richmond let us both be found dead on the field and let our last words be "Onward to Victory and Union!" Why did Hallie write me such a letter. Ah! how fearfully my heart beat while reading it and it does now. But I will not dwell on such thoughts. Jesus will spare you darling and I know God will. I had not heard of Edwin Williams death His pooor sister Heda ! If she loved him a sincerely as he did her I fear the knowledge was a fearful blow. While speaking of her I have seen the tears spring to his eyes and she would be obliged to leave the room because he would not repress his emotions. How many a noble youth has fallen while striving to supress this rebellion "I think you are a learned man is all the answer I shall make in regard to the remarks you made upon Catholicism You gave me a beautiful description of the 4th. I believe I have written once or twice how I spent "When future favors Charlie will come " When did you not say. "When the coming present favours you" for the future never comes. Strange that you do not hear from Hal He tells me that he writes often to you. Laura has answered for herself and Dora might answer if she would but she she says she does not know whether she is an idiot or a girl of sense for it is so warm and she attended a party last evening and feels the effects of it. You wrote me in regards to Laurie's initiative. Certainly you can have it if she will let you but you may receive a "No sire" I guess not though.
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16Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1862 July 31  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: As I have allowed so long a time to pass without writing to you I thought it would be very appropriate to write on the last day of the month. Shall I beg pardon dearest, or not? My only excuse for not writing sooner is that I have had not time.
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17Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1862 September 10-11  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Although but two days have passed since I since I last wrote you yet and as I have not heard from you for so long a time I am going to give you some more “spoiled paper” You must not act upon the principle that the longer you neglect writing, the oftener I will write. for it is a poor principle, You do not know how it grieves me when I do not hear from you for so long a time. None but Dora understand the sorrowful disappointed look which I can not supress when day after day the same answer “no letter” reaches me, I can not help at times but feel dejected and despairing, wondering if God does regard the prayer which so often ascends in behalf of that absent loved one, --my idolized Charlie. But I attach no blame to you darling, because I know that you write just as often as you can, so don't think I have forgotten my promise-- to scold you no more.
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18Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1862 September 15  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: I recd your darling letter several days ago but have had no opportunity to answer it. I had looked long and how anxiously for some missive to assure me of your safety and was almost ready to give up in dispair when the welcome assurance came. I did suffer darling very much but I never for one instant thought you thoughtless. No. for I know how often your would write had you had an opportunity that you would write to me daily could you do so. I trust you can soon remain 24 hours in a place so you can write me that "much" of which you spoke, for I must confess I need it to cheer me up a little. Such a dark and gloomy position is at present presented to our view that I can not help but partake to some extent of the same nature. I am glad that your confidence in Gen. McClellan is so unsha ken for here at the north his star is fast- waning. The defeat of Gen. Pope was attributed to the failure of McClellan to bring up his troops, and it has been published in the Cleveland Herald that McClellan's reason's for not bringing his troops up was that that they were too demoralized to trust them them on the field. If that was the reason--if our army of Virginia. consisting of hundreds of thousand of once efficient and brave men. have become demoralized so that they can not be trusted on a battlefield, then we are truly in a fearful and destitute situation.
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19Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 25 October 1862  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Shall I try and interest you for a few moments. this rainy evening? But I shall not commence my letter quite so “stylish” as was my darling's last. even if I am a Colonel's sister. I shall not give myself that little, until I know whether I have a right to it or not.. for Hal. is rather dubious about his being able to get men enough for his regiment. So many have been drafted, and although Gov.. Tod. has given drafted men permission to enlist for three years, yet the most of them think nine months is not so long a period as three years.. For my part. I am not very particular about his going into the service again. for we all want him at home. True. I know that our old Uncle Sam wants just such men as my brother — Hal. B.. Case but Addie & Laura want him too.. We want Charlie also very much. but darling, can we have him for a little while this coming winter? I fear the answer will be this “No Addie you must wait patiently still a little longer, thy Charlie is too useful to be spared yet” Have I not waited very patiently and oh. how long for thy return my darling? So you was rejoiced, and congratulate. Hal on his “good fortune” do you dear? Well as your congratulations came through my letter. I suppose it becomes me to thank you, which I heartily do.. I could inform Lt. Col. Asper that the military committee did not have very much to do about selecting Case “after he had that rupture with Tyler.” It was Gov.. Tods own offer.. Hal. at first declined and even now says he is willing but not anxious to
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20Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, November 9, 1862  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Nettletoncivilwarletters 
 Description: I am going to try and write you a cheerful letter to day. I say cheerful, and mind you if it is not, it is no fault of mine. You will conclude and rightly that I have had a dread- ful. (please excuse the division of that word) attack of the “blues” You will now wish to know the cause. Well, as you are my confidante I will tell you. The first; (you wont tell any-body?) I have not heard one word from C. M. Tenney, for almost two weeks. (listen now) and when he last wrote me, he was not able to go with the regt. I do so hope he is not so ill as not to be able to write to — to — Addie But what does it mean. He is always so prompt in writing when he is not well. Can not you tell me where he is. and how? If you can I shall be a thousand times obliged.
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