Your welcome letter
of 20th inst was received on yesterday
Write very often--nothing can be
so interesting to me as your letters.
Some of the other wives you think get
more letters than you do--and you
women measure your husbands love by
the number & length of their letters--
If so tell Annie Lewis that
is the most affectionate husband in
the Camp--I will write to you Love
about once a week and half a
page at a time--I cannot with
justice to my eyes write longer
letters. This will be handed to
you by Maj Preston who will
tell you every thing you want
to know--Kiss the children for
me and for yourself take my
best love Ever Yours
E.F. Paxton
Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton (1828-1863), a University of Virginia alumnus, a friend of Thomas J. Jackson and a lawyer and bank president without previous military training, entered the Confederate Army as a 1st Lieutenant in the Rockbridge Rifles in Col. James F. Preston's 4th Virginia Infantry.
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