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LETTER TRANSCRIPTION
ONE WORD WITH THEE.
One word with thee – one sweet yet mournful meeting,
If but to catch again they low sad tone,
And clasp they hand, and feel its warm pulse beating
With love’s delicious throb against my own
If but to catch thine eye and hear thee say
“I will remember thee when far away.”
One word with thee – though not of hope or gladness,
On which to muse when we are far apart;
A whisper – breathed in silence and in sadness –
To leave a hush forever on my heart!
One word – to treasure in my bosom-core,
Whether we meet again, or meet no more.
One word with thee – though it may be to sever
The last sweet link that binds thy soul to mine,
And tear from me thy burning heart forever,
To place another on its shattered shrine!
One word – to treasure in my bosom-core,
Whether we meet again, or meet no more.
One word with thee – one brief yet blissful meeting
To catch thy voice, where last we met alone;
Whose faintest sigh can set this heart to beating
With thoughts and feelings that it dare not own!
One word – O God of bliss, and it can be
That it may be our last? – One word with thee!
THE END.
Transcriber’s Note: The following note is written on the top of the first page in what appears to be
Jerome’s handwriting:
The purple flowers are a field flower and pretty.
Transcriber’s Note: The following note is written on the bottom of the second page in what appears to
be Jerome’s handwriting:
From a vol. [volume] of poems taken from a house at Jackson, Miss., where our line of battle moved.
From “Mrs. Welby’s” Poems, known as “Amelia”.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Note 1: This item consists of the above poem printed on the front and back side of one sheet of paper,
with the above notes. There no indication of the date when or from where this item was mailed. There
is no envelope. However, based on other letters, Jerome was in the Jackson, Mississippi, area in mid-July
of 1863.
Based on the contents of the letter, Jerome apparently sent some field flowers with this letter.
Note 2: Mrs. Amelia Welby, who went by her pen name, Amelia, was born in 1819, died in 1852 and
lived in Kentucky. Her “Poems” collection was published in 1850.
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Peirce, Jerome
Allie
Jackson, MS
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From Jerome to Allie
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Jerome Peirce
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Jerome Peirce Collection, National Park Service
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HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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1863-07-??
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NPS, Civil War Study Group, Josef Rokus (Transcriber)
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Jackson, MS
Allie
Jackson
Jerome Peirce
MS
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… morning (Sunday) when we were moved again in a circuitous route, resting on a steep bank, concealed till daylight when we moved back to our old quarters occupied on the preceding day. Spent Sunday inactive excepting a march to the city, where we stood all day in mud and water, when back again to the ravine! Some firing during the day, but things were evidently “dragging” their slow length along. Remained till Monday eve. when things looked like still and mysterious, a stealthy march to the city, moving to and fro, till toward midnight we passed the river, which was covered with dirt! And soon we were at an old camp, tired, surprised and I suppose defeated! Further I know not. “The ways of war are incomprehensible and past finding out.”
The fires of camp have weakened my eyes, so writing tires them. I must close, I would gladly keep on, fire is low but thought is busy.
I was much interested in your account of Allie and Lulu. How gladly would I relieve the loneliness of the one and feast eyes and heart with the companionship of both!
Oh, Abbie, of this I can hardly speak. I came from an honorable and in my heart of hearts from a pure motive. Is it all in vain? Are we to be forever defeated and our labors rendered void? We have a desperate age as a brave enemy. Would some of our leaders at home were here to see! One thing is certain, I loathe war. I have no words to express the feelings that takes possession of me as I recall the scenes of the last few weeks.
I have not said as much before, but out of the abundance of the heart etc. God forgive me if I am less brave but this slaughtering “his own image”!! So thought I as I gazed on four lifeless bodies in a garden in Fredericksburg in all stages of mutilation, such as I cannot here describe.
Forgive me for thus closing, you are when you can fill the mind with gentler things. May I be permitted so to do some future time and be again united with all that’s nearest and dearest.
As ever, your brother,
Jerome
Registers [newspapers] are duly recd. [received]
Will try and find the 11th N. H. [New Hampshire Regiment] They were in the street at F. [Fredericksburg] on Sat. [Saturday] with us. Saw them on the march.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
This is a partial letter from Jerome to Allie’s sister, Abbie. Although the salutation page, which would have contained the date and location is missing, based on the content of the letter, Jerome probably wrote it shortly after the 36th Massachusetts Regiment was engaged at Fredericksburg, Virginia, or in camp at Falmouth, Virginia, in late 1862 or early 1863.
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Peirce, Jerome
Abbie
Falmouth, VA
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HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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1862 or 1863
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Falmouth
Jerome Peirce
VA
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To Abbie
From her affect. [affectionate] “Bro. [Brother] Jerry”
Abbie,
These are some of the gems and I only add his epitaph by himself and an expression during his illness. He died in Italy at the age of 24. You shall see the whole volume sometime. His likeness is the very embodiment of poetry.
Epitaph
“Here lies one whose name was writ in water”
“I feel the flowers growing over me”
(I forgot this)
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter”
“He ne’er is crowned with immortality who fears to follow where airy voices lead.”
Human Life
“But this is human life, the war the deed
The disappointment, the anxiety
Imagination struggles far and neigh
All human bearing in themselves this good
That they are still the air, the subtle food,
To make useful existence and to show
How quiet death is.”
Vow of Chastity
“In that same void white Chastity shall sit
And monitor me nightly to lone slumber
With [???] lips I vow me the number
Of [???] Sisterhood and kind [???]
With the good help this very night shall
My future days to her [???] consecrate.”
Evening
“The good night blush of Eve was waning slow
And vesper, risen star, began to throe
In the dusk heavens silvery”
Love
“There is not a sound
Melodious howsoever can confound
The heavens and earth in one to such a death
As doth the voice of love. There’s not a breath
Will mingle kindly with the meadow air
Till it is planted round and stole a share
Of passion from the heart.”
Transcriber’s Note: The following note was written on the margin in a different handwriting:
These quotations must be from the poet Keats.
Lucy S. Peirce
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25.
John Keats died in Rome and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. His last request was to be placed under a tombstone bearing no name or date, only the words, "Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water."
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Brother Jerry
Abbie
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Brother Jerry (Jerome Peirce)
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Jerome Peirce Collection, National Park Service
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HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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Unknown
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Jerome (Brother Jerry)
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
The above two poems were found in an envelope addressed to Miss Abbie Jaquith, Charlestown,
Mass. No date is legible on the envelope. The following note was added on the envelope: “To be given
to Jerome Clark with the rest of my Father’s letters. [???] S. P.”
Note that in the second poem, the name “Allie” has been added in parentheses after the name
“Nellie.”
The reverse side of the above clippings were also scanned, but the subjects (an article about a
school finance committee meeting and an advertisement) are not relevant.
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Jerome Peirce Collection, National Park Servic
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HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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Unknown
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NPS, Civil War Study Group, Josef Rokus (Transcriber)
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Good bye my comrade, friend, good bye.
Our paths awhile diverge indeed.
Mine yet om earth ‘neath changing sky,
Thine o’er an ever blooming mead.
I’ll not forget thee soon, Jerome.
Thy honored name, thy friendship true,
The pleasant hours of talk and stroll
That I have oft enjoyed with you.
In heaven thou’lt not old friends forget.
Our pilgrim paths all center there.
And, reunited, soon or late,
We’ll all breathe heaven’s sublime air.
Ben [???] Edmands
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Jerome Peirce Collection, National Park Service
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HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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Unknown
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NPS, Civil War Study Group, Josef Rokus (Transcriber)
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For educational purposes with no commercial use. Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP, FRSP 16095-16102 (FRSP-00904).
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…Now Allie, a word for your private ear to speak of the friendship that has sprung up between Ben and I because I knew it would be a satisfaction to you to know of the heart friendship, which is more than passing strong. We are together a great deal of our spare time. Have had long, long talks. His history temperament and lot in life very similar tastes and struggles with limited means and all calling out a fellow feeling. ‘Tis like my old friendship with Albert Pruitt. He is so true and high toned, such a help to the soul. Could you see us together, he reciting over the sweet verses of Burns and of hymns and a thousand beautiful things, and then at last, we share each other’s letters very much and when I can confide like this have I not and you too a friend? ‘Tis one of those friendships like you [???] and his wife and her letters. She must be a loving noble soul. This might sound strange but fear not ‘tis fully safe and in honorable hands for both. He today recd. [received] her photograph. She, like you, is much improved in flesh and general cheerful looks. B. [Ben] says however hard for us [???] [???] certainly providential for our wives.
I wish you were more acquainted. Your remark “now don’t get romantic” you want to live near together, etc., etc. meets my view. Notwithstanding some [???] [???] [???] for he still loves Mass. [Massachusetts] very much.
One word about the Commission. It does not seem propitious, no vacancies. I hope for a furlough in autumn and then perhaps the way will be open. My friends must not find me indifferent and I trust at the right time, energy will not be wanting for our improved “sight” in life and years of sweets yet. All by the [???] of the good Being who keeps us all.
B. [Ben] always adds his regards.
Adieu
Jerome
Private
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
This is a partial letter from Jerome to Allie, with no information as to when and from where it was written, since the page that would have included that information is missing.
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Peirce, Jerome
Allie
Old Point Comfort, VA
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Jerome Peirce
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HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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Unknown
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NPS, Civil War Study Group, Josef Rokus (Transcriber)
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For educational purposes with no commercial use. Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP, FRSP 16095-16102 (FRSP-00904).
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Allie
Jerome Peirce
Old Point Comfort
VA
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My dear friend,
I have been writing again to your husband and hearing that the regiment had again moved. I do not whether to direct it to Cairo as he directed me. I hope it does not trouble you to send my epistles with yours. He is so far from home and friends that I know he must be glad to hear of them and to know of them and to know he is remembered.
I hope you are well and little Lucy too. She will be a young lady before I shall see her. Is your sister with you? My kind regards to her. Mrs. Greenleaf always like to hear from you. Her little ones have been well since they have been in the country.
Yours truly,
L. M. Ellis
Jerome’s letter was dated 28 July.
Transcriber’s Note: The following was written on the reverse side of this letter:
Mrs. Jerome Peirce
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
NOTE 1: This letter is undated, but based on the contents and on the dates of the letters Jerome wrote from Cairo, Illinois, it was most likely written in the summer of 1863.
NOTE 2: Jerome mentioned the Ellis family, and Dr. George E. Ellis in particular, in several of his letters, including that he had received a letter from Lucy M. Ellis, who presumably wrote this letter.
Based on references made to Lucy Ellis in several letters, Lucy M. Ellis was almost definitely the wife of Dr. George E. Ellis. The Ellis family had established a relationship with Jerome and Allie because Ellis was the pastor in the church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, that the Peirce family belonged to prior to moving to Orange, Massachusetts.
An Internet search provided the following details about George Edward Ellis. He was born in 1814 in Boston, Massachusetts, and he died in 1894, also in Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1833 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1836, and he was ordained in 1840 as the pastor of the Harvard Unitarian Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts. From 1857 until 1863, he was professor of systematic theology in the Harvard Divinity School. In addition to being the pastor at the church, he also wrote and lectured extensively. George Ellis resigned from the pastorate of the Harvard Unitarian Church in 1869. He was president of the Massachusetts Historical Society and also a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University in 1850-1854. Harvard awarded him the degree of D.D. in 1857 and that of L.L.D. in 1883. He is buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A few days before the funeral service was held for Jerome on June 19, 1864, in the church in Orange, Massachusetts, where Jerome Peirce had been the Sabbath School Superintendent, Dr. Ellis sent a lengthy letter to the pastor of the church in Orange, Rev. Levi Ballou, requesting that that letter, in which he discusses Jerome’s virtues extensively, be read at that service. That letter is now part of this collection of letters and is identified as Number 225.
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Allie
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HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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1863
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L. M. Ellis
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Entered into Rest
O. my friend. O my dearly beloved!
Do you feel, do you know,
How the times and the seasons are going;
Are they weary and slow.
Does it seem to you long, in the heavens,
My true, tender mate.
Since here we were living together,
Where dying I wait.
‘Tis three years, so we count by the spring time
By the birth of the flowers.
What are years, Aye! eternities even,
To love such as ours?
Side by side are we still, though a shadow
Between us doth fall;
We are parted, and yet are not parted,
Not wholly, and all.
For still you are round and about me,
Almost in my reach,
Tho I miss the old pleasant communion
Of smile and of speech.
And I long to hear what you are seeing,
And what you have done,
Since the earth faded out from your vision,
And the heavens begun;
Since you dropped off the darkening fillet
Of clay from your sight,
And opened your eyes upon glory
Ineffably bright!
Tho little my life has accomplished,
My poor hands have wrought;
I have lived what has seemed to be ages
In feeling and thought.
Since the time when our path grew so narrow,
So near the unknown,
That I turned back from following after,
And you went on alone.
Sent me by a dear friend who now rests from long years of suffering and harm, in the other Happy Home where there is no pain.
A. J. P. [Albinia J. Peirce]
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Unknown Letter #10
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Allie's friend
Allie
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From Allie's friend to Allie
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A friend of Allie
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Jerome Peirce Collection, National Park Service
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HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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Unknown
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NPS, Civil War Study Group, Josef Rokus (Transcriber)
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\For educational purposes with no commercial use. Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP, FRSP 16095-16102 (FRSP-00904).
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English
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Text
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Allie
Allie's friend
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Jerome, my friend, I trouble you
This letter to forward.
Please do it for L. W.
I hope ‘twill not be hard.
If chance should take you out that way
You’ll take it out with you.
If not, the postage please to pay
And Uncle Sam the job will do.
Transcriber’s Note: On the reverse side of this note, the following note was written:
Miss Locke
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
This note does not show any information such as who wrote it, when it was written, etc. Also, the letter that this note apparently refers to was not included with this note.
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Unknown Letter #9
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A note
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Unknown
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Jerome Peirce Collection, National Park Service
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HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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Unknown
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NPS, Civil War Study Group, Josef Rokus (Transcriber)
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For educational purposes with no commercial use. Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP, FRSP 16095-16102 (FRSP-00904).
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English
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Text
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Unknown Letter #9
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… newspapers as never before. Surely it is an eventful time in which we live and I feel that there is with all the horrors a certain “high honor” in sharing its dangers and perils. So dismiss from your mind the thought that your husband is “homesick”, “sorry to have come” and all that for he is trying to “endure unto the end” with fidelity and honor, albeit the heart and nerves sometimes sicken at sights he is compelled to witness.
Jos. H. has written some pretty plain smart letters home since the affair. He won’t say he is homesick but is “disgusted’, thinks a great deal of humbug etc. and wants likes to be honorably at home, etc. But he doesn’t view things altogether calm, sometimes, in short, he is as he is at home uneasy if things don’t go “about so”. Say nothing of this however. We get along quite well together, “agreeing to differ” about some things. Thinks much of his friends and writes some good letters, very. Always reads them home to me.
By the way, I never show your letters and read only what I think proper aloud to anyone and am compelled to burn them of course, so not easy on that score. You have not mentioned about Lulu’s box, tho I suppose you got it at Foster’s and about the money. Did you receive the whole ($8.00)? Suppose you did as I sent some of it at Fred. [Fredericksburg].
Tell me when you get a response from the “Social Six” to my pictures, etc.
The tea comes regularly now and is a great treat, as it was today [at] noon. I don’t think to mention much about our living. I can get along very well generally and seldom purchase of the sutler, but many of the boys seem to think a great deal of their stomachs. I find the Army “rations” very good. Did get a little butter and cheese the other day to share with Jos. H. for he frets over the living a good deal. But to one who has been used to feeding the mind, such extremes of feeling are not customary. I say this in no spirit of pride but it is a fact that the cultivated in mind are enduring cheerfully and always reading or conversing on some solid matter at every leisure moment, while the others are “fussing” about the “rations” and wondering what the next meal will be, etc. etc. And so we have the two classes and here, as at home, the ruling spirit [will] win out! I have borrowed “Harper’s” Magazine for Dec. which I shall read. We do no drilling, having the wood to get, and picket duty keeps us in exercise.
About my eyes, since we got fire inside, I’ve entirely recovered but when fires outside as “New Year’s Eve”. I had to go on guard with three men at Col. Lasure’s Headquarters (only a few rods from here). It was blustering and cold. The smoke from the fire troubled me again. They are all right now and expect some good times when papers come, etc.
Only think 1863! What will be a year to come? I think a great deal will be decided some way. God grant it may be all for the best. Only think too of A.B. Fuller’s death at F. [Fredericksburg]. I couldn’t believe it at first but I read the funeral services today in the paper you sent me. How many gallant spirits have gone to their long home from the dear old Bay State? Who can but deplore when such men perish?
But a word for Sister Mary. Am glad you are so successful in your school and you see how “dignity” even a little womens doeth the work! I trust the writer may pass pleasantly and profitably.
And Hattie, I have not forgotten you but I know where your heart and pen turn and trust we shall all meet at the old home to recall the eventful past by and by.
I will stop as the mail does not go till night and am quite tired.
A little later. Time for supper. Saw the [???] a moment just now, liked Hyperion very much, said he would give a [???] for it now. The provost guard took everything away from the soldiers that was in sight and his [???] was crossing the bridge with his things in his hands so he lost it. I have tried to think of all the items, but perhaps I have forgotten some.
Am glad you chat away so on the war, etc. Speak freely and give your opinion and how people feel for I think it a period and want to know how matters go.
Have you heard of late from the Emersons?
Love to all friends as always. Wrote you on Sunday last.
A kiss for Lulu. I hope she won’t forget me, but one so young it wouldn’t be strange, my looks. I feel sad when I think she may do so but I hope we shall meet before it is so.
As ever, your affectionate husband
Jerome
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
This is a fragment of a letter, with the page that includes the salutation, location and date missing. However, based on its contents, the letter was almost certainly written in early January of 1863.
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Unknown Letter #8
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1863-01
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NPS, Civil War Study Group, Josef Rokus (Transcriber)
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For educational purposes with no commercial use. Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP, FRSP 16095-16102 (FRSP-00904).
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English
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Text
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Unknown Letter #8
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Unknown
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From Jerome to Allie
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Jerome Peirce
Allie
Jerome Peirce