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Blenheim May 19th 1864

Thursday evening

Dear Nina,

I don't know what we are yet

in communication with the rest of the

world, but I must try to get a letter to you

for I have worked myself up into a great

state of uneasiness about you, and so I wish

you would write immediately and let me

know that the yankees have not

[?] you or left you to starve or any

of the other dreadful things. I have been

imagining you groaning. I see by the

occasional papers that we get that the yan- kee raiders were all over Hanover, have you seen any of them. I suppose you could hear the cannon during the fighting, do write & tell me all you know about it. We have missed half the papers. And were you not thankful Mrs. Booker's boys have been [?] this far. Oh I do hope they will escape. I see [?] Sctt is slightly round in the head. [?] [Meredith?] f the P. E. troop passed through this county on his way home on Saturday last and said the boys were well & safe when he left there Saturday morning. They

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have offered much as a company, while our poor Powhatan troop was cut all to pieces. Two of them who were at the party at Mr.s W. Hobson's last spring are among the slain and we hear of 3 in the company wounded severely mortally. [Johnnie?]Hobson, Dr. Hobson's nephew is one of them killed, you heard Pa speak of him. I suppose if you see the papers you know we have had a raid on the Danville Road, Powhatan Sation was burned and we expected to have had them all over the county, but they were so roughly handled by the 17th Va Regt that they are trying to get back to their lives, which I must sincerely hope they will not be able to do. They shall not come any nearer us than that we heard from Lieut. Morgan, he was slightly wounded

in the knew in the fight in which

Gen Stuart was killed & his horse, that

beautiful horse that carried me about

so much was killed under him. I

have not had a line from any one since

the battle began, in fact we have not had

a regular mail for a week, so do write to

me at once and relieve my anxiety about

yourself & tell me any thing you have heard.

It is not worthwhile for me to write a long

letter, for I have nothing to say, we are just [two?]

six more weeks and I do hope we will all be

together, I can't wait until the last of July. Give

much love to the girls. Your devoted sister, Hattie.