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201Author:  Harden, JudyAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: Judy Harden to Mr. Howell Lewis 1858 January 21  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I agin by tha healpe of god am abel to infourm you that i am well at preasent and I hope theas few lines may find you in tha same state and all tha rest and i am glad to say to you that all my family is well we hav not bin sick Since my housban dide and I have found Imployment at Cooking for the Emmigrents at this place Carysburgh Is a healthy mountian and i was very much disapinted in not giting a Letter from you and i hope on tha next Ship you an mis Sara lowis will right and give my love to all tha Children and to ant rachel and uncle John and tell him that his Children has not forgot him yet and federrick mans I am Sorrow to imform you that your Sister in law dide aboute 5 mounts ago in ad 1857 Brothers and sisters dont forgit me bi cause my housban is did and i look four some of you to rite to me befour Long and give my love to ante franky and i have got one town lot and thirty Akers of land for my self and Children and while i am ann ann thi aC I rent my lot aught for $3 50 Six mounts
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202Author:  Scott, MaryAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: Mary Scott to Dr. James H. Minor 1858 January 21  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: i Drop you these few lines and i hope that thay may finde you and family well as it leaves me at pres ent and i enjoy good helth at this tim and My Respects to all enquiring frendes and to Mrs Mary and Children if you Be pleas to send mee one Barrel of Bacon and one Barel of flooer one Barrel of fish a keg of Buter a Barrel of Suggar and if you Be pleas to send me a Bonnet And a Counter Pin Pleas to send me a Blue Barage2 Dress and some Lawn and geigem and a Roll of Bleach Cotton and 3 Pair of Shoes and Stocking is you Please and Ball of figerd White Ribbon and if you Pleas Sir to Direct our letters and things to Carys Burg is you Pleas Sir
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203Author:  Walker, GeorgeAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: George Walker to Dr. James H. Minor 1858 January 27  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I hop thes lines may find you well as they leave me. I am very Glad of the Saw you Sent me I am thusin times oblige to you. also I am blige to you for all the things you Sent me. I recive all you Sent to me. but the cloth I sent to you for I wish you wold please send me one Soot of Broad cloth please Send me one role of Blue Driling one pice of calco & one pice of lon. one Role of unblich. one pice of fine cotting for shirten. one pice of line. please Send me one Dr Book please Send me four Baptis hym Book. please Send me one box of tobacc. Send me one cage of nails number 10. one cage of number 4 if thare is any mony of for me please Send it by someone that is coming Right heare. to this plase please Send me one barrel of meat. Sister Betty Says please send hea her one Role of unblich cotten & three pareShause number 7. please Send her one white dress. & She Says you must Send them with my things we Just got our Land since the last Emegrants come out wich is 30 Acrs we are now fixen to plant Rice please give my love to master Howl Louis & all his family & Master Henry Louis aske him I Says is he marred yeat or m no tell him to write me I have writin to him I do not no whether he Recive the letter in or no I my Self is not yeat mared give my love to ant Rachel at Musik hall tell her that I am yeat Striven to pray for tha all By the Strangh that God give me to do it with. I Am doing well an all the f family tell ant Rachel all the Girls Send thare love to her & Winslow tell ant Rachel that I now stans in the pulpit to clas the Gospel the liven the best way I no how all you all wich take Goad for thare Mast must pray for me when times gous well with you. Dr please Send me them thinges wich I write to you for I hop hapnest & payety will gide you while on erth you stay if we dont meet on erth no more I hop we will meet in heaven, please write also when you writ tell me whare is unc el Billy & Joseph)
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204Author:  Franklin, Henry; Franklin, MillyAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: Henry Franklin and Milly Franklin to Dr. James H. Minor 1858 January 27  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: pl please to accepect these few Lines from me hoping that the Same may find & you & yours all well. & as to myself & Dear old mother & Brother Warren & Little Allis we are all well. I like the Country very well indeed & have no Desire to return to A America. for we be leve there is no County on the Earth can Equal it in the world. & now Sir my mother Dear mother wants you Sir if you please to Send her. or one barrel of pork. one bar of Soap. one half barrel of Suger Some Cloth for her Little grand Child. its mother is Dead. named Rachel man. & for my mother Some Shoes. Some Cloth. one barrel of Mackerel & now Sir for myself. Henry Franklin. one barrel of pork. one box of soap. one barrel of Shingleing nals or nails. one barrel of Leaf Tobacco & 2 axes & 2 hoes & Sirs & madam please to give my best & kindest Love & respects to all my Enquiring friends both while & Coloured & we write for those articles because we had no plank from the Society 1 nor anyese anythingelse and we Did not riceived our portion with the rest. we apply to you Sir for the ballence. which when the articles comes will be very accepetable in Deed no more at present
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205Author:  Twine, CharlesAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: Charles Twine to Dr. James H. Minor 1858 January 28  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I hope thes lines may find you well as thes leave me 2 pole Axes tow grubings H hoes one han Saw. Send tow cage of nails no 4 no 10 one Set of knifes & forks one dusen tine plats, please send me Barrel of Bacon send me one Barrel of Hearen. one Barrel of Crus Sugar. one cage of Butter one Box of SheseChees. please send me 3 Role of Calco of difrent kind 1 Role of onblich cotten one Role of bleasch cotten please send me a patten of broad cloth the other got disstroyed by accident Send me tow black satten ves please Send me one Role of beadticken please send me a pladed cantepin tow blanket one bead stide Send me one box of calafenuas hats of diffrent kind three cuse pare brogins tow pare fine welted shause for Sunday send me Fahler pice & one bag of Duck shauts please send me box of soap please send me some fine Pocket hankerchif send me one dusin sockes send me some flackes thread 3 hole bucket I want tow nice Gay silk hanker chif please send me one Whipe saw jamun stile please send tobacco seedes some of all you have one hand please send me barrel syrup please send me some saks to take one or tow bottel of Cast oil send me me some vinager
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206Author:  Michie, WashingtonAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: Washington Michie to Dr. James H. Minor 1858 January 28  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I cannot write a long letter as all the others have written to you and you might think hard of me is the reason I am writing these few lines. I am well and hope this find you well. I want you to send me 1 barrel of Corn meal, 1 Barrel of press Pork, 1 Box of men shoes, 1 Box of leaf tobacco, 1 piece of pantaloons stuff, 4 umbrellas 1 Barrel of fish.
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207Author:  Coleman, MartinAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: Martin Coleman to Dr. James H. Minor 1858 January 28  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I Hope thes lines may find you well as thes leaves me pleas send me one Boshl of flour one barrel of Pork one barrel of Bacon one barrel of leaf tobaco four pair of No 10 shoes one Role of blue flannel send me a foulen pice send me four Roles of Calico one cage of molases one cage of shugar one Role of Bleach cotton one bag of shots one cage of Powder one Box of soap send me tow umbrellas one for me and one for my Wife one Barrel of corn meal one Box of sodar one sack of salt tow pole Axes tow grubing hoes one Role of Blue Drilling tow Pair of Children shoes 1 No 3 tow pair of Blades one cage of Butter one Role of Kentuckey Janes one set of Tin plates one Dosen of Knive and forkes send me tow Hounds one cage of nails no 4 one no 6
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208Author:  Barrett, RichardAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: Richard Barrett to Elizabeth Lewis 1858 January 28  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I now write in answer to your two letters I received this year, I was glad to hear from you and all the freinds in that part of the Country. I and children are well, and may this find you and all well and enjoying the bless ings of kind heaven. I now tells you some thing about Careysburg. This is a fine place and fine country indeed, the custom of the natives is very good they are docile and friend ly people, I have not seen one hostile one as yet. Those persons that came out with us, most all living except those you have heard death. If you pleased to send me 1 Keg of nails, 1 Barrel of Pork, and children shoes and pair for myself, and two axes, pantaloons stuff 1 piece, 1 piece Calico, 1 grumbling 1 hoes and some of the cheapest of Cloths which is dif ferent kinds of Calico piece of each, 1 Box of soap and two Bridle Blabes and 1 sett of knives and forks and half dozen of water pails. We have meetings every Sunday and the Baptist Association have appointed a young man from Grand Bassa Country by the name of F. Roberts to teach us all little and big who wished to go to school
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209Author:  Scott, DavidAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: David Scott to Dr. James H. Minor 1858 January 28  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I am well and I hope this may find you and family in the finest of health as it leaves me. I Should have written you but time and chance did not admit. I now must tele you something about Liberia, this will be a find country in time to come all we want is in dustrious men and religious persons to carry out the object that is design for Liberia. I am now building a small house on my lot which I hope will be done in short. I think many of the friends have written almost everything to you which will interest you, so I will not pick up many things as they did. Brother Thomas Scott is dead and I hope he is gone to heaven. Brother Willi am Douglass and family is well and doing well as it can be expected for we, new persons for this country. Mr. S. Carr have build a small house for himself and family. Mr. Hugh Walker Sr. have also build and is living in it. If you pleased to be so kind as to send me, 1 box of leaf tobacco 1 piece of bleached cotton, 1 piece of pantaloons stuff and two pair of shoes, one pair of coarse and pair fine no. ll's: half barrel pork and one piece of Caleco. I should written long and more of the news about Liberia but time is very short and precious, as I hear the ship will leave Saturday so you see I cannot say much at this time. My regards to yourself and family and es pecially to little Tommy and all the enquiring friends. All my love to Roda, Caroline, and El ly , to Ann Rachel and I very often think about her. And all my, to Mr. H. Lewis I should like to see him very much but I think about two years from now I shall try todoso if I should be spared by the assistant of God Almighty. I am very glad to hear that you had the very fine wheat crop on the mountain that I sowed for you before I left home, I have killed killed 5 deers since I have been on the mountain one day before I wrote.
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210Author:  Harden, JudyAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: Judy Harden to Howell Lewis, Dr. James H. Minor, and Frank Nelson 1858 February 27  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: Sir will you pleas to send me one barreal of pork and one barrell of shugar as I now stand in need of it I am now a lone without a hus ban but I mean to go to Cultivating the sol soail and one barell of flower and a box of soader and a set of nives and forks set of Cups and sausars and a set of tinnplats and 12 cups tinn pleas send me one roal of bleached Coton and a role asemburg ausomburgh 2 pleas to send me suteble clothing for my children and pleas to send me some suteable clothing for my self and a box of hankcheff and a box of stockings and a box of sope and thread choose for my self and chillern and pleas to take this leter to your self and pleas to study my intrust you three
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211Author:  Douglass, WilliamAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: William Douglass to Dr. James H. Minor 1859 January 26  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: you Kind Letter Came to hand & it gave me much pleasure to hear from you & Famly & that you are all Well theas Lines Leaves my Self & Famly injoying Reasinable health I have had the feaver, but have Chills at times but Still able to tend to Bisness I am Somtimes working at the camp in town work other times on my lott & as to the happyness of the Rest & how the will get a Long I cannot say yet as the are only getting on thair farms but Can Say for my Self that I apprehend no fear as Regards my Self if I have my health I have beanSelling Potatoas at $100 pr Bushel beside what I use for my Famly. I have Coffee in Bloom & also a Small Crop of tobacco. The Seed was Sent to yong Barret & by Sowing at dif ferant times have found out the propper time to Plant, it grows as well as Nair ground tobacco I am cureing Sume the Longest Leaves ware 27 inches Long & 13 inches in weadth but this Land being high I think it will do better in the Low Land, but fear we can rais no Seed as thair is a small incect that get on it when in full Bloom, that will destroy the Seed. when the Ship Returns pleas Send me Some of the White Stem Seed tobacco our Farm Land is Low Bottom Land, & will be more suteable for the Cultevation of all Seeds I am happy to Say to you that all the things Sent by you Came Safe to the Per sons the ware sent according to the Bill of Laden sent by Mr Nelson. The Clay Ash land party had all Come hear Except Duglss Scott & I went down my Self & had the things devided & his Portion left for him at the Depot the Freight was $40 00 Dollars for Bringing the things from monrovia to the Depo the Duty on the goods was $1.80 So that the $200.00 did not pay the Expence & in concequence of no invoice of the goods it is thought thair is an an over Charge of Money & wish you to be Sure & Send the invoice of Goods Bought & Shiped that is the amount Sent out in Goods the Letters that you may Receive now will be from the par ties as thay are tending to thair own Bisiness Sepperately I shall only write for my Self & what Ever Balance is to be Sent I hope that you will Send it I do not Expect any thing more I am sattisfied I am sattisfied with what I have got but should thair be any thing send me 2 flannel shirt & the Balance in grocerys as thair is dis sattisfaction amon the other parties I have nothing to do with & havefent not put my Name to no paper What Ever Except my own Letter we are getting along well the place is improveing the Popu lation at preasant is one hundred & fifty 1.50 our prospects are fine we fine Agent Mr Paxton I spent a faw days at Monrovia in December & I tell you the do things up Lik you White People & I am happy to say to you that I am a Justice of the Peice I am Lerning to Write 1 but not able to send you a letter yet
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212Author:  Southall, AdelineAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: Adeline Southall to Dr. James H. Minor 1859 February 17  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I Receive the things you sent & thank you kindly I got the half of the things you sent the Calico & Flannel & Shues & Stockings & my sister Lucy got the other half I wish you would Send me a Keg o Flouring nails & Brod Axe & Sume Door hinges & anything you have money to get them with I have my Lot Cut down & want to put up a House as I have no place of my own I am Cooking for the Society now but do not know how Long & would Like to have my own House to go into Pleas to Send Some Bead ticken & Sume blue Cotton & Cloths for Horras 1 & a hat 2 Peices muslin 1 ps unbleched one do Bleach 1 Box Soap as it is Scarce hear I would like to have Sume Hank enchiefs Sume Cotton & Sume Linnen & a pair Shues for Horras Please Send Sume Leaf tobacco & a Piece a Calico give my Love Sister Susan that I am well & Like the Country very well Horras is well & goas to School Evary Day give my Love to my Husband Henry Southhall & tell him I am not married yet & miss him vary much & Like him to come out Please Send me a Door Lock & Pad Lock
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213Author:  Coleman, MargaretAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: Margaret Coleman to Dr. James H. Minor 1860 January 19  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I write you these lines to inform you of my health which is quite well at present.. I hope these lines will find the Same.. Give my beset respects to Father.. Please Send me Some Nailes. no.. 6 & no 8.. I have nor house.. I recive.. 1 pare Shouese from you. I wold thank you for you to send one keag of Powder.. &. 1. kage of [illeg.] fish.. Please Send me Some calco.. & Some blue denims ed.. Please Send 2 par shuese Gators & fifty lbs of Tobacco.. One Box of Soap. half barrel of Flour ½ Flour & Sugar the thengs I Sent for please Send she them to me, Becaus I have all the children with me & this country is hard please send me one Ax & 2 hoes
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214Author:  Southall, AdelineAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: Adeline Southall to Dr. James H. Minor 1860 January 19  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I recive one pare of shoese my Best respects to you & family please if you send me any more shuese send no 7 & on 8. Please send 1 pice of calco, 1 Box of Soap 2 piece of bleach cotton. Lucy send her love to all the family She says she recive 1 pare of shoese please send her pare of fine shoese no 7 one piece of Calco 1 bolt of bleach. 1 bolt of onbleach. 1 box fo of Tobacco. Box of Soap Nothing more
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215Author:  Paxton, J. H.Add
 Title:  Liberian Letters: J. H. Paxton to Dr. James H. Minor 1860 February 15  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I beg to say that on the return of the M. C. Stevens 1 from the leeward there was landed from her another box of merchandize for the Terril people, of which I had no former knowledge, because there came no invoice or bill of landing for the goods shipped.
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216Author:  Douglass, WilliamAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: William Douglass to Dr. James H. Minor 1861 February 22  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I recd your letter per M. C. Stevens and was much pleased with the contents thereof. I have seen Dr Harner in Liberia. I & him came togeother to Liberia and I was very glad to see him again on our shore. it was my intention to have came over in the "Stevens" this time myself but defer it for another times on account of bad news.
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217Author:  Douglass, WilliamAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: William Douglass to a Friend 1866 January 29  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I take this opportunity of writing these few lines trusting they may find you well, and family, as I am quite well, I have been very anxious of hearing from you I has written you four letters during the war and could hear nothing which made me very anxious to hear from you, I could not tell whether you was dead or alive. Please to let one hear from you as early as possible and also let me your condition and your country's. I would like to come over but and had proposed doing so, but at this time I am very busy in sugar making & farming and cannot well leave, Last year I made 8000 pounds of sugar, and I expect to make a great deal more with the Small machinery I have this year, I Sold last year's for $60 thousand. 1 I am also acting as agent for the Am. Col. Society for this last emigra tion that came from Lynchburg here Dec. 14th 1865, which keeps me very busy I therefore am oblige to give up the idea of coming as I proposed this march, but the pastor of our Church Albert Woodson is coming over in march and I expect him to call and See you and all the friends in that district for me. please answer this as Soon as you can to this as I may know all about you and if you are alive and all respecting you as I am longing to hear a word from an old friend as you. Also inform me something about my Children I could hear nothing from them neither during the war though I has often written them, but I chance to hear mention of them in a letter to George Walker from Mrs Reeves that two was dead and one she never mention her name at all Julia, which made me very unhappy. In 1861 when Dr. Hall was over here last I gave him $20 — in gold and a receipt for the Same was inclosed to you in a letter. requesting you to draw it from him and give it to my children but the war broke out before he could arrive to America and I have heard nothing about it Since. I and family is doing well here and are well, And I feel very proud that myself and family may be an example for those that may hereafter come to this country of Industry. I must close for the present untill I hear from you, Make our love and regards to your family and all inquiring friends
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218Author:  Bitner Collection: Cressler, AlexAdd
 Title:  Letter to Henry A. Bitner  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters | Henry Bitner letters | Bitner collection | Letters written to Henry A. Bitner 
 Description: I have been somewhat dis- appointed in not seeing you up here to see the men playing soldier, and now since Gov. Curtin is expected here tomorrow, (Saturday) I will feel sure that you are coming, and look for you, my but they do look pretty, Just come and see. Three Regiments were in yesterday afternoon and make a long line of people, who with their glittering bayonets under the rays of the shining sun, accompanied by their Bands, or marshal music, and the heavy and steady tramp of three thousand men, make all who stand and look on, feel, that they are not soldiers, all this can but give a very faint idea of the appearance of one hun- dred and fifty thousand human beings marched into the field of battle by the warming and thrilling sound of almost countless drums and Oh! what, or who can describe the feeling of that immense congregation of human souls when the sound of the booming cannon first disturbs the quiet of that breast and paints death and destruction all around. We may try to form some idea of the scene presented by a battlefield, both while in the actual contest and after, but can never, in my opinion, realize the horrors of such a sight until we ourselves behold it, and such; humanity forbids us from wishing. May it never be seen in our land, but may the Flag continue to wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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219Author:  Bitner Collection: Cressler, AlexAdd
 Title:  Letter to Henry A. Bitner  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters | Henry Bitner letters | Bitner collection | Letters written to Henry A. Bitner 
 Description: Yours of yesterday was received in due time and being fully digested I embrace this privilege of writing to you again. I was sorry to hear of your disappointment on Saturday last, and can only measure your feelings by imagining what mine would have been under corresponding circumstances. Saturday was a day of interest and satisfaction to me having never seen the like before, when I cast my eyes along the line, which was formed along the one side of the street, with arms presented and beheld the field of bayonets elevated above the heads of thous- ands, and the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which is the Key-stone of the Arch, moving steadily and silently along that line, with his penetrating eye firmly fixed upon them, and his countenance remaining unmoved and apparently speaking of the condition of the Country and the object for which so many sons of labor had been called together, I was led to exclaim, "who can tell what a day may bring forth." From a person who came from Williamsport Md. yesterday we learned that two Regiments of Secessionists had come there and by yesterday's Tribune, that the plan is to come on through until they reach Philadelphia, in order to get provisions, should they attempt to carry out that design, we will have a bloody time here, and you may be sure the men here will give them a breakfast job at any rate, and I hope Shippensburg and the Pines will, by the time they reach you, have their 10 O'clock peace ready for them and see that every man gets his portion due. This is to much to trifle about, as it may be their design, however I am not yet uneasy, but should they come it may be that I might never see you again let come what will, I expect to be prepared for the worst that can happen to me. The citizens of Chambrg. are calm, and do not apprehend an attack from the rebels from the South. I have not in my imagination marked out the plan by which the present troubles may be settled, but find that the opinion of some is that war is the only remedy. if such be true then the Northern boys must go to the work, and what could be more cheering to the hearts of freeman such as we are, than to see that the whole north will move to the work, as one mighty machine none of the parts being wanting, but all complete, and all of which have been tried in the days of '76, and found to be as true a steel, and since the fall of Sumpter it has been greatly strengthened and now is the Greatest Structure, and most complet machine under the Canopy of Heaven, and when it begins to move forward upon the foe, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific,-every part reveling in grandeur and might, not being driven by steam, but the hearts blood of million, and the smiles of Heaven, although moving slowly, its tread will be the surer, and long before it reaches Cape Sable, secession will be crushed out of existence, and like a mighty cloud, it will rain Union sentiments on every farm and plantation south of Mason's and Dixon's Line. Let us start the ball rolling, and send seces sion to the place from whence it came, you will now allow me to tell you a little anecdote, which I heard a few days ago Mr.— A said "that it has often been his wonder what the D—l tempted people to sin for that their sin could not make him any better," when Mr.— B said, "Don't you know that he is a secessionist -that he was the first to seceed from Heaven, and consequently the father of secession," —more truth than joke — This is a day of sweet recolection to me, being the 21st day of May. "Rather let my right hand forget her cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth," than for me to forget my hours of unalloyed peace three years ago at old Stony-Point, Those were the happy hours of my life. And I hope the Friend I there formed may be my friend for life — would to God that all who participated in that season of refreshment might be able to say — My labors there have not been in vain, I hope you will let your mind run back to that era in your life and call to memory the hours that you with me and many others spent there. Henry dear remember then. I am looking for you this week; dont forget to come. I have been interupted a great deal while writing this, so that you will find some trouble in reading it. write soon I if it is not to much trouble, I sometimes think that I am imposing on your time to ask you to write but I cant help it no person else will write and I am very glad to hear from the pines.
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220Author:  Bitner Collection: Cressler, AlexAdd
 Title:  Letter to Henry A. Bitner  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters | Henry Bitner letters | Bitner collection | Letters written to Henry A. Bitner 
 Description: Yours of the 22nd ult. was received in due time, but not answered as soon as its demands required, but "better late than never." "so here goes." In my last I spoke of the sight presented in our streets, but since that time things have changed considerably, and the scenes presented in our streets on Friday and Saturday of last week were quite a different aspect reality be stamped on every move. On Friday five companies of Cavalry, the heroes of Sumpter (except Maj. Anderson), four Regs. of troops, accompanied by their bands and followed by their baggage wagons, which make a peculiar rum- bling noise, this Brigade was six miles long (Capt. McMullens Philadelphia Rangers were in the crowd.) You may and can only imagine what the effect of such a scene would be, the sight was the most sublime that I ever witnessed, the bands of music with numerous fifes and drums,— the heavy tread of about forty wagons, all conspired to bewilder the undrestanding and render vague all our preconceived ideas of war. The movements of Saturday were not quite so imposing, but for the cavalry it they would have been equally grand. Sabbath approached finding our citizens in a state of uproar & confusion, cars were running an screaming — men were working wagons were moving through our streets from morning till night and citizens were on a continual parade. truly such scenes, such sabbaths, and such times, were never before ours to behold. Uncle Stumbaugh will in my opinion leave very soon, but when I do not know, but think, to night or tomorrow, if you should happen to see any of our folks and it is not to much trouble, you would oblige me by telling them, that if they want to see him that now is the time, Isadore has been confined to bed sick for several days and doesn't seem to improve much, and I fear that he will not be able to go along with his fellow soldiers.
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