1862 January 2 Cavalry Camp Leesburg

Thursday night

I must write you a few lines tonight
my darling if it is only to let you know
that I had a letter from you this mor-
ning, and to thank you for it, it is the
one you wrote on Christmas day, and
hs been more than a week coming,
a letter from you is quite an important
event to me, and is finally so now
when I had not heard from you for
10 days, just think of that, and then
it was a sweet letter my darling,
full of that love which is dearer
to me than all else on this earth,
and teeming with cherished mem-
ories, don't you know that on the
night of the 26th, we were both think
ing of the same thing, and that
at the same moment that you
were writing to me I was also
writing to you about the same thing

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at the same time I knew what
you were thinking about as well
as I do now, that night eleven
years ago I loved you, as my bride,
tenderly, with the fervour of a long
cherished affection, and, as I thought,
with all the love I had to give,-this
night, my darling, you are a
thousand times dearer to me, if
possible, than you were then,
good night my own darling, Heaven's
blessing be upon you.


letter of Edwin R. Page of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry will continue on January 4

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