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Rome September 12, 1862 [?] Friday Morning

Darling Mother, I was so glad to get your last letter which came [of?] last mail day, it seemed a long time since I

had heard from you all, and our letters do not seem

to go straight - for it has been much more than two

weeks since I have had a letter from my sister, and I have written

to her twice since her last - except one which came a day

or two ago, dated the 26th of June. The same mail which

brought your letter brought me one from Father, saying we

had good reason to think dear Charley was safe. God be prais-

ed for that. I confess I could not greatly rejoice over our

glorious victories until I heard that. What glorious victo-

ries they were. I wonder what Gen Lee thinks of volunteers

now, in the beginning of the war don't you remember with

how much contempt Mildred used to speak of them and

said her father said they could do nothing against reg

ulars? How glorious for our gallant army to be in Maryland

now the poor oppressed people there will have a chance

to throw off the heavy yoke they have been groaning

under, and show that they can strike for freedom. I

shall be much disappointed if there is not a great rise

in Maryland, for I feel as if the state were more nearly

related to VA than any other in the confederacy. But how

is our army to be provisioned there can Maryland supply

its wants, certainly that part of VA nearest to them

will not be able to send much. Saturday morning Mrs. [F's?]

sister, Mrs. Atkinson, lost her little baby - just a year old last

Wednesday from the effect of measles, and just after I went

into school yesterday morning they sent up for me to come

down to the funeral. Mrs. F had been down there for a week

Mr. F was sick in bed, and Maria had never had the measles

so Mr. [Bowling?] took me down in a buggy, and I did not get

get back until dark and then had to go to bed with a head-

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ache so I will not