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1Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1862 February 2  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Nettletoncivilwarletters 
 Description: Did you ever behold such a beautiful sabbath day as this one? I feel more like working out of doors and shouting for joy, than sitting in silent admiration, as civilized people are pleased to call it. But I don't believe they enjoy the beauty one half as much as they would if they were as free as birds. Oh, anything for me but sitting in the house so prim and formal saying just such words, as if they had memorized them, and if you chance to say anything else, blush as if you had been caught in the act of stealing Why, Charlie my darling I believe human beings wander as far from nature as from God. But you, will say is this from Addie, such a commence- ment for a letter from Addie? I presume that is the fact, does it not agree with your sentiments? Charlie, You do not know the disappointment I shall experience if you do not come home when HalliecomesI had stored away so much pleasure for your return, thus it is with life. How suddenly and cruelly can our brightest hopes be dashed. But I truly hope thus that hope will rise soon. I saw Mrs. Benton at a donations party last tuesday evening, and judge of my surprise when she told me that, her husband recieved a letter from Charlie Tenney. She told me that she heard from Hal, I asked her, how she heard
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