| | 1 | Author: | Case, Adelaide E. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1862 February 4  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Nettletoncivilwarletters | | | | 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? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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