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Hd. Qs V.D April 10th 1863

My Dear Cousin,

You must excuse me

that I have not written till now to ackno

wledge the receipt of your letter [?]

the pretty comfortable cap which ac

companied it. My reason for not writing

immediately and [?] thanks was

that a plan was on foot to go down

and attack [Milroy?] and I expected it

to be coming into affect in a few days

and then hoped to give you some

news from Winchester knowing how

much you are interested the place, but

Gen'l Stuart interefered with that [?]

[management?] and we were waiting on

him for a long time expecting him every

day but he did not come. Finally

giving him out I went off on my

furlough which I had gotten some

weeks before. I took advantage of it.

On my return I found your letter of the

23 [?] and hasten to reply. I went from

here to Charlottesville where I spent several

days very pleasantly. Saw Miss Mary [?]

several times and the Misses [?] from

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[Berkely?] who were staying with her. They are [very?]

interesting ladies. The change that I found

in the [?] was quite agreeable - young

ladies have taken the place of the students

on the lawn - formerly when I called on a young

lady I would probably find some two or a

dozen students in the [room?]. Now I find

four or five pretty young ladies and myself

the only gentleman. There it is sad to see the

cause of education suffering so much and to

think of so many talented young men

deprived of the advantages of such an

institution. But as things are now it

would be [?] more sad to see young men

flocking to the place - for who would not

rather be an unlearned freeman than

an educated slave.