1862 January 12 Centreville, Va.

My dear Little Nannie:
This is being written after our post boy has
started for the Junction and too late to be mailed at Centreville –
You will therefore be disappointed in not getting from me a letter
on tomorrow morning –
I am glad to hear through yourself the 8th
that Clark was well enough to go to Richmond and that he
was kind enough to take Lizzie with him – I know you will miss
her very much but she will enjoy the trip and be benefitted by
a participation in the gaities of the City – I wish you could
have gone with her to stay all winter but never mind it may
be that we will yet be permanently located there – If Clark
has gone there for promotion or any appointment connected with
the Army he should have adopted my suggestion & carried cre-
-dentials with him from here –
Now since you have a great nurse for the Cap’n
I feel better satisfied – You must commit him mainly to her care
and enjoy yourself in every conceivable way – Ride about, go
to Church and attend all the Concerts and lectures just like
Maurice Langhorne’s wife – Your Ma has been more a slave to
her children than I desire you to be to yours – then let the Cap’n
take care of himself as near as he can with the help of his
nurse –
You can make any dispositions you choose
of the fund’s handed you by your Father except that you must
make your Ma (my Mother) a becoming present in my name
and be sure that you keep your wardrobe handsomely & well
supplied with every thing – You would not like to go with
me some o’ these days to Richmond “with nothing to wear” –
That green dress is not enough & I know that you have not
enough of white clothing although you always are so neat –
While in Richmond Lizzie can buy what you want –

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Grey Latham is moving very surreptitiously in an effort
for promotion – He never confers with me on the subject
but he will find me somewhat in the way of this accomplish-
-ment of his purposes as far as this company is concerned – the
which on whose guns he cannot bargain to outsiders or to
his subordinate officers - I do not talk now nor will I speak
until I can see or hear something tangible – I reckon he speaks
so favorably of me because he thinks I am so simple-minded
unsuspicious & undesigning –
The proposition of Senator Thomas for
Virginia troops elicits indignation but the latter proposition of
Senator Douglas meets the approval of those in the field here –
Kiss the Cap’n for me – Tender my love to all
at home and tell every body that
I am Nannie Tings own
Choctaw

William B. King, Captain of the Saltville Light Artillery

Henry Grey Latham, Univeristy of Virginia alumnus, attended 1851-1852

The proposition of Senator Douglas: the Confederate Conscript Bill

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