1861 December 23 Manassas

Dear Miss Fanny

I wrote you a day or two
ago and begged you to write me
a Xmas letter to cheer me
At that time I supposed I would
spend that cheerful season at
Camp. Now I am on my way
to Columbia S.C. to attend
the meeting of the convention
of the People of So. Ca. the Same
that passed the Ordinance of
Secession, of which I think
you did not much approve.
Now, however, I hope you
do no consider us so rash
as when we first met. My
purpose in writing this
hasty note is to assure you
of my continual thought
of you and to beg that you
will address me at Camden
S.C. from which place I will
receive my letters. More anon
Most Truly Yrs.

J.B.K.

Miss Fanny Dickens

General Joseph Brevard Kershaw, 1822-1894

MSS 5533-d