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1Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, May 18, 1862  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Nettletoncivilwarletters 
 Description: Few, very few are the days which I have spent equal to this. I am not happy to day, darling, far from it in fact. I am not well. A violent headache has clinnig to me all day, which added to the oppressiveness of the atmosphere makes me feel miserable.— Oh! what a refreshing breeze has just swept by — and then almost two weeks have passed since I recieved the letter that you wrote last. Dearest why do you not write ofterer would that you know how much happiness your darling letters brought; and how unhappy I feel when so long a time passes without recieving one. Do you hear that music Charlie? Grand isn't it? It is down stairs in the parlor. Who is it do you ask? Libbie Armstrong one of my scholars. (Did I mention that two families live in this house.) She has just played and sang, "Red, White, and Blue". I imagine I can see Charlie, my best and truest friend bearing that glorious flag on to liberty. Go on dear one, the prayers and blessings of Addie attend thee. Listen to those sweet strains another piece she is performing now, How quickly will music draw the heart to its gentle accents. What language is in music. Do you see the great tears which almost throws these lives into obscurity. It is not sorrow that brings them now, but it is the influence of that gentle music. Leibbie is not a good player neither is she a good singer but I am just far enough away to have it sound more like the chanting of angels than like the effect of a human being's voice and hands. I promised in my last to give you my experience in “boarding round” the second night. In my “experience” that I gave you last, I think in fact, I know I gave you the wrong date. It was the 1st and I gave you the 14th did I not? All for the sake of contrast here goes,
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