1864.
I picked this up at Washington. Man who had it will never see friends nor loved ones more, as he laid dead on the rebel skirmish line.
Charles E. Blake.
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Rocky Mount, N.C., May 31, 1864.
Dear Husband, –
I this day seat myself to drop you a few lines to let you know as I am up, about, but not to say well, but I hope these few lines may go safe to you, and find you enjoying the best of health. My dear, I haven’t had but one letter from you since you left home and that was written at Petersburgh, and I have been to the office and can’t hear the first thing from you until I am wore clear out. I wanted to send you something to eat by Henry, but I can’t get a letter from you and I don’t know whether you have got to your company yet or not. I would give this whole world if it was mine if I could just lay my eyes on you one more time. I could not tell you the trouble that I have seen since you have been gone with my one tongue, but I hope that we will both live to see one another again, and if we never meet in this world no more I hope we will meet in heaven where we will never part no more. I want you to write every time you can. I got your shirts ready, but I don’t know whether to send them or not for I don’t know as you could get along with mine or not. So I remain
Your loving wife, and till death
(Signed) Charity Daughtridy.
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The above is copied Nov. 5, 1898, as
near as it can be deciphered.
H. W. Blake.
