1861 September 4 Camp at Fairfax Station

My darling Jennie

I have recd but one letter from you
though the mails continue to arrive each day
but I suppose you are all well, or you would
certainly inform me--To day it has been
raining hard all day with no prospect of
a clear off. Of course it is damp, cold, muddy
and disagreeable as possible and I am
thereby happy that you are not present and
none the less so because we are expecting
orders every minute or rather fearing or-
ders to return to Masons Hill. It was
reported last evening by a mounted man
in Col Hills Regiment, that we had driven
the yankeys from another important hill
in the vicinity of Masons and now hold
it also--of course the impression is that
Col H's Regiment did the fighting but, I
can hear no particulars and very little
that is reliable-- I have just recd your
two last letters. In one of which you
speak of cheerfully waiting to go with
me to Richmond. by this time you have
recd a letter from me saying that I

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could not go to Richmond and agreeing entirely
in your wish to go to Harrisonburg. I wish
Jennie Watson could go with you there.
She is a noble fine girl & I know will
always be kind to you. Mother & all of
them are delighted to hear that your
going to see them I will in a few
days send you at Harrisonburg a
check for some money & will direct
you how to use it or at least a
part of it. I have sent in my account
to Sep 1 for 340 I will remit some
15 to 20 of it and for my imediate use

and $75 to pay for another horse: I
have engaged to try one & if I like him
to buy him--of Dr Campbell--Frank
is entirely useless at present--Camp-
bell asks me 150.

I must close or be too late for the
mail

affectionately E T H Warren

[Colonel of the 10th Virginia Infantry]

Dr. Campbell: 1st Lt. Josiah Lockhart Campbell of Company F had been promoted to Captain on August 22. John P. Mann IV

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