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[Blenheim?] May 14th

Your most welcome letter of the 28th darling Nina, enclosing Fath- ers and Mothers notes arrived yesterday how I cant - [?] you. It was sent to me from a free negroes house near here but however it came it was most welcome. It made me at first ex- ceedingly uneasy about my dar ling Mother, but I read the [pg?] what she said about herself and she seems to think there is no cause for my [uneasiness?] so I have determined not to allow myself to be so, but you must write as often and as soon as you can so as to let me hear. I have made various efforts to get letters to some of you since the fall of Rich mond but doubt whether any of them have reached you. People in this

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part of the country have been having so much trouble with their [ser?] vants that gentlemen do not [?] [?] to have their plantations. For a while they were very dangerous. They picked up the [?] which our miserable deserters threw away and banded [?] together and went about the country robbing and breaking into peoples homes. We did not have them in this neighborhood, but down about the C.H. they [kept?] the people in constant alarm for some [?] or five days, they have now been put down however. Poor creatures, they are shooting and hanging them without mercy over in Amelia and about the [?], I mean their yankee friends, so we hear Three of the [?] have left - and five of Mr. W. H.'s, but we have had no trouble with those who remain I have no heart to speak of our count try, this disappointment is very griev ous and hard to bear. God must have in- tended it to work out some great good, but

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it now is certainly hid from our eyes. It is hard to keep our faith, and the faith of many seems to have failed particularly among our soldiers, and I know not what today, when I hear them say as Willie [Starke?] said the other day, "certainly God is not a God that heareth prayer." I have heard some news