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1Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenny, June 4th, 1862  
 Published:  2005 
 Subjects:  The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Nettletoncivilwarletters 
 Description: Did you ever see a more disagree- -able morning than this? Rain, rain nothing but rain and has been so for nearly a week. Don't you pity the school teachers such a day as this? Here have I walked nearly half a mile through the rain and much before eight o'clock, and after building a fire to make it appear more cheerful have gone to writing. But what are my inconveniences when compared with the soldiers. Here I find a dry and pleasant school-room to enter and although they are not now here, there soon will be happy faces hurrying to receive their teachers morning kiss. and then follows the pleasant hours to be spent in learning and reciting lessons. While with the soldier, how different. Perhaps for their employment is a long and tedious march through the storm with no covering, to be welcomed only with a cry of revenge and maybe death. Really my labors are but light. and how much nobler is the cause in which they are engaged than is mine. But you will be anxious to hear how my school is prospering. I think it "goes of" finely. Not quite as well as I could wish (for you know we are prone to wish more than can be expected sometimes) but full as well and perhaps better than I expected. Thirty scholars attend now. they are from four to seventeen years of age. Have I ever told you the branches that are studied? They are reading writing. Arithme -tic. parts 2 nd and 3 rd Ray's. Mitchells Geography, Pinneo's Grammar, and Ray's Algebra1. also Orthography. Now do you not think I have a school? I do. There. I told you they would come. one. two three four five - all coming to say good morning. and the girls to receive the kiss which I had to stop writing long enough to give them. I would that you could see them, darling, one little boy wishes me to stop writing and talk to him, shall I do it? I know you would say yes, dear Charlie. were you here so I will gratify him
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