Martinsburg, Va.--[hole in paper] office
Sunday Evening, Septr. 14th 1862
Mr. Wm. M. Blackford, Lynchburg
My Dear father
I sent you a telegram
after the Battle of Groveton--i.e. on Sunday 31st ult.--
through the medium of a letter to Dr. Fairfax in Richmond
from his son Randolph, announcing my own and bro
Wm.'s safety. I hope it reached you. I have
really had no opportunity to communicate with
you except this since my letter from 8 miles below Orange
C.H. I have more to communicate than I could
get into a quire of paper of this size, about the
stirring and brilliant events of the last 3 or 4
weeks, in which I have been in three battles.
The detail for clerical duty with Dr. Cabell
has reached my captain and after much
deliberating and no little hesitation, I have
determined to accept it. Some delay must
necessarily occur in my getting off owing to
the difficulty in getting the passes etc. from
Hd. Qrs., all of which I will explain when I see
you. I expect to see you in the next week or
ten days. I cannot go into particulars now as
I write in haste. I had a very pleasant time
in Frederick City where I met many of your old
friends, and was hospitably treated by them par-
ticularly the Ross'es. Longstreet is at Hagerstown
and Jackson at Harper's Ferry. I am here now on
detached service with one gun of our battery
In great haste--Your affectionate son
L. M. Blackford
I have written to Dr. Cabell. I saw bro. Wm. last a week ago [in Fred?]
[note on address leaf]
I have just seen a friend of the the[sic] 2d Va.
Cav. Regt. who saw br. Wm. in good health
with Gen. Stuart near Frederick City last
Friday morning--
Lancelot Minor Blackford, Rockbridge Artillery
MSS 5088
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