1862 June 19 Falls Cottage

June 19th  Falls Cottage
My Dear Doctor

                         Your letters
by the politeness of Dr Hackley
have reached us since that
time we have nothing from
you.  i can not think
why you have not written.
Sometimes I have thought
it best for sundry reasons
not to write you at all.
Father's health is very feeble
and I fear the effect of
warm weather on his sys=
tem.  Mother is well but
more busy than she ever
was in her life.  Even
Emily (poor infirm creature)
is gone. What will become of
these poor people?
Their last state will be worse

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than their first.  I regret to
say.  Fitz Taylor has been at
deaths door with Typhoid
Pneumonia, for several days
I thought he must die,
but now he is growing
better slowly...George Thorn=
tons wife's Mother a Mrs Ro-
now in your city
berts ^ came up to Fbg under
a flag of truce some days
since  You had better call
and see her.  I do not know
her address, she spent a
night with Sister Mercer, &
I will get her whereabouts
form Mercer and let you
know it in the bottom of
the sheet.  All are well as
could be expected, both far
and near.  Col Kane of
your City who seized a
part of Cousin Annas House,

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has died of a wound in
Richmond.  Edmund Taylor
H's Aunt's Son died of a
wound about the same
time.  but I turn from this
picture of death; who holds
a high carnival in our land
to your own fire side.
   To Cellie give much love
& little E a bunch of
Kisses.  I will take this
to Capt Mansfield Provost
Marshall of Fbg to have it
forwarded to you  Direct
your reply to him me
in his care.  I have written
you these few lines most
hastily, that they may go
to town this evening----
Do let us hear from
you soon  all untie in
kindest love to you &
Cellie

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Your affect Bro
David S. Forbes

Letter to William Forbes of Philadelphia sent across the lines from his brother David in Fredericksburg, Va.

Perhaps a reference to Col. Thomas Leiper Kane, 1882-1883, of the Pennsylvania "Bucktails," a former abolitionist and friend of Brigham Young's, who was severely wounded and captured in the Shenandoah Valley in the spring of 1862, but recovered.

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