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1Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, July 2, 1862  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Nettletoncivilwarletters 
 Description: If I thought there was so much happiness for me as the probability of soon seeing my loved Charlie I would not write this morning but as every thing generally goes contrary to our wishes and expectations. I doubt not but that such will prove to be the case now. I do not know why I had so anxiously waited and looked for your return, this 4th but as the drowning man catches at a straw. I clung to the little encouragement. Lieut Brisvine gave you. and even now I shudder at the thought of abandoning that hope. There is scarcely a day but that I hear of some soldier coming home to meet his friends, and when I think of Charlie so long absent. I find myself fervently wishing that others were obliged to stay away as long as he. I know it is a cruel wicked wish. but it is perfectly natural for human beings to wish for someone to share their trials as well as their joys or at least to sympathize with them and when I see others so happy because a dear friend has returned from from the wars, I wonder why such happiness is given to some and denied to others. You will call me an "ungrate- ful little minx" as Hallie says. but refer the case to yourself. Look way down in the naughty corners. (If you have such) of your heart and if you do not find just such rebellious thoughts, striving so hard to get the control. then call me a poor judge. But you will say I am arguing both sides will you not?
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