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Note on the letter says that Lucy was visiting her cousin Ella Waring at “Malverne,” Essex County, Virginia, while her father was in the Senate in Richmond.
She regrets his worry over reports of the Yankee visit to their neighborhood while he was away. She assures him that the accounts were exaggerated and that the Yankees have departed after taking as many horses as they could capture, around sixty. Infantry were landed from gunboats which took off grain. “They only had pickets posted at...
Dates:
1863 February 20