1862 Sept 28th Richmond, Va.

1862 Richmond  Sept 28th

My dear Mary
               I send you in
closed a note from your
aunt and from Miss Mar
garet Watkins, and need
not add that you will al
ways find at Roanoke the
same friends and welcome
you have had of old---
     I mentioned in a for-
mer note that your father
left some memoranda with
me, and a codicil to an old
will--I presume however
these papers have been render
ed valueless by subsequent
arrangements--I will care

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fully preserve them as
it is barely possible that
some of them may be
useful--
     With much love to your
self and the children
                            Yours truly
                          Wood Bouldin


Another family separated by the war. Virginia relatives of Philadelphian Mary Virginia Ellet, later Cabell, are concerned for the well being of her and her younger siblings who were orphaned when their father, Union Colonel Charles Ellet, Jr., was mortally wounded on the Queen of the West in the naval assault on Memphis and their mother died a few days after her husband.


MSS 276