My dear Lanty
Your letter
just recd. My advice to you
is --considering that you
will be only a couple of months
in Staunton--not to join
a company likely to be
called out--but to attach
yourself to the Home Guard
and drill assiduously--If
the demand continues. you
can join one of compa
nies in the field-
Orders came today for
the Home Guard--the
Rifle Greys--the artillery
and Robert Saunders Company
to march to Richd. Our com
panies will go in the
morg. There is great
excitement of course
and every one is in a
hurry--Your mother
stands the parting very
well--Charles' troop is
ordered to hold itself in
readiness to march at
a moments warning.
He has given up all bus-
iness--refuses [?] &
has devoted himself en-
tirely to his duties as
an officer.
Williams company
is also ordered to Rich.
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I do hope to see him in
a day or two.
Affly yrs
WM Blackford
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