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Locust Hill 2nd [?] 62
My dear granddaughter,
You see I have made
a beginning and a bad one to write the long
promised letter. I have been so out of the
habit of writing so long that I can [scarce?]
form a letter. I have been enduring the horrors
of influenza for 1 or 3 days, but not with
out the consolation that I am no worse off
than others, every body in the house is feel
ing its effects more or less, including the
brave Capt Duff who was foremost in the
defence of Leesburg. He came here sick a
week since, and has had quite a severe spell
he has been well taken care of, for we know
the value of the [?] and in the [?].
We are quite anxious to see him restored
to health before the next battle, for he is
not only a brave soldier, but a good com
mander, and only 21, sober, industrious [?]
[?]. The girls have a variety of Beaus
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from the [Vicksburg?] Southerners Camp
over near neighbors just the right
sort for the [purpose?], very young, handsome,
genteel looking, and well behaved.
We are surrounded on all sides by en
campments, but not at all disturbed
and feel very secure in the number and
bravery of our defenders.
No more romantic affairs have trans
pired in our society since Hattie Gray's
marriage, which has turned out much
better than might have been expected.
She has written a long letter to her Mother
that seems like a fairy tale. She finds
herself surrounded with a [stately?] mag
nificence that she could not have imagined
in a large old Virginia family mansion filled
with servants, surrounded by [parks?] and [?]
laid out to considerable extent and kept in fine
order, and a connection in the neighborhood
living in the same style, she says she believes
there has been a hundred negroes to pay their
respects to their young [?].
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The scene has changed around us since
you left. The Vicksburg Southerners occupy
the place of the [?] they poor fellows
are employed in making fortifications below
the river and Leesburg, and since they got a new general
have been put to work like slaves at night. The girls
met Lieutenant McCarthy yesterday in the [street?]
and did not know him. He is so thin, he told them
he had been starved, worked to death, and not allo
wed to leave the camp. Mr. Anderson has been sick
too. Both your aunt Mary's boarders have left