New Market-Frederick County
Maryland
September 7th 1862 5 1/2 o'clock
I wrote you, my darling wife, from Dinwiddie in the County of
Loudoun last Friday the 5th. On this day we marched to
Leesburg, & cross
(where we passed the scene of the Ball's Bluff fight)
marched to Poolville in Montgomery county Maryland.
At that place we fell in with some Yankee Cavalry:
These we ran off capturing Thirty two prisoners
& killing & wounding some. We went that night
to a point near Monocacy Church & camped.
Yesterday morning we started out & came
to Urbanna & from that point to day we
have reached the place from which this
note is dated. We have as yet been in
but two counties of this State. Montgomery
& Frederick. In these counties a very large
majority seem to give their sympathies to the
Southern Cause, and some of the young
men are enlisting in our army. I trust and
pray that our arms may be attended with
success in this State, that the God of Battles
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will give us a glorious victory over our
enemies & thus force them to give us an
early and honorable peace. I see in this
movement the best augury of peace.
Gen Fitz Lee has has[sic] just
sent for me, darling, & I must close
my note. Farewell, dearest. How I love
you. How tenderly I would fold you to my heart
how warmly I would kiss you. Love to
the children & kisses. I am most anxious
to be with you, or even to hear from
you
I wd write more after I return
from Genl. Lee but the man who is to
[take] this is to leave camp immediately.
Farewell again my darling-
I pray God to protect & succor you.
I am yr affec. husband
John T. Thornton
John Thruston Thornton, Col. 3rd Virginia Cavalry, lawyer, University of Virginia alumnus
MSS 4021
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