| | 1 | Author: | Case, Adelaide E. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1862 September 15  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Nettletoncivilwarletters | | | | Description: | I recd your darling letter several days ago but
have had no opportunity to answer it. I had looked long and how
anxiously for some missive to assure me of your safety and was almost
ready to give up in dispair when the welcome assurance came. I did suffer darling very much but I never for
one instant thought you thoughtless. No. for
I know how often your would write had you had an opportunity that you would
write to me daily could you do so. I trust you can soon remain 24
hours in a place
so you can write me that "much" of
which you spoke, for I must confess I need it to cheer me up a little.
Such a dark and gloomy position is at present presented to our view
that I can not help but partake to some extent of the same nature. I am
glad that your confidence in Gen. McClellan is so unsha ken for here at the north his star is fast- waning.
The defeat of Gen. Pope was attributed to the failure of McClellan to bring
up his troops, and it has been published in the Cleveland Herald that
McClellan's reason's for not bringing his troops up was that that they were
too demoralized to trust them
them on the field. If that was the reason--if our army of Virginia. consisting of hundreds
of thousand of once efficient and brave men. have become demoralized
so that they can not be trusted on a battlefield, then we are truly in
a fearful and destitute situation. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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