1862 Aug 23 Brampton

                       Brampton
                      Aug 23, 62

My dear wife
                       I believe that
there are no Yankees left in
Madison & I will thank you to send
over my ox team & cart & horse team &
wagon. (The carriage horses & mules[?])
Send over three middlings &
order Carter to call at Halls with
the wagon (which I shall have the cover on)
& take on one hundred pounds of bacon
I bought there. (give him an order
for it)  You cannot send enough feed
with to last through.  Tell Carter
not to wait for the ox team & to come
on he can come through in a d day & a
half.

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John can take Jim with him
he cannot make much over
fifteen miles per day---Send over
my brown coat & a shirt & umbrella
I wish to try & get out my
wheat at once if I can, I find
that I am not well enough to follow
the army as I intended.  Jim
Bankhead & myself have been scouting
about in my neighborhood about
the time the Yankees were leaving & tho
they were reported to be about we could not
find any--Old Billy has run off from

Mr Bankhead & if the enemy get back
will no doubt try & carry off his family
which I shall move if they are in much
more danger. Charles can stay &
haul in the shingles & learn to make

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shoes if you can get leather
from the tanyard.  If Charles
wants a hand to aid in sawing
[?]  I presume you can find
him one--I wrote you a
day or two since to the same
office as this letter & send this
by Richmond to make th sure--
We have taken several hundred
prisoners & to day we are
fighting beyond     [hole in paper where ]
may  God grant us [stamp was on verso]
my Love to all
Most truly yrs
A.G. Grinnan

Mrs A G Grinnan
Dixie
Fluvanna

via Richmond

Dr. Andrew Glassell Grinnan, 1827-1902

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