From Jerome to Allie, October 9, 1862
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Title
From Jerome to Allie, October 9, 1862
Subject
Peirce, Jerome
Allie
Weaverton [Weverton?], "Pleasant Valley" [MD.]
Description
From Jerome to Allie
Creator
Jerome Peirce
Source
Jerome Peirce Collection, National Park Service
Publisher
HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
Date
1862-10-09
Contributor
NPS, Civil War Study Group, Donald Pfanz (Transcriber)
Rights
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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Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
Letter #21
Coverage
Weaverton [Weverton?], "Pleasant Valley" [MD.]
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Weaverton, “Pleasant Valley” 9th Oct/62
My dearest Wife,
I [sic: A] generous bunch of letters lie here before me—arrived today—also the package [of] letters &c by Seargent [sic] B, and altho’ I mailed a letter but a few moments before he came I will add another today for you at Orange where I suppose you will rec[e]ive this. Well my dear, I thank you as your nearest friend for so remembering me, it keeps the spirits bright to get such. I hope you will gradually rise through the darkened hours, which I know will rise, through all the questioning, to a noble, and cheerful resignation to the way which seems marked out for us, for surely where come tears and heart sundering, but there shall be a Compensation and reward, somewhere in the future. Ah, Allie, on the ground, these many nights, when naught but the stars and pale moon seemed to give any light to the weary soldier, I have meditated the strange problem that I was away here from those most dear to me? I cannot tell all in words, but I trust—trust—and what more can we do? I know you are not alone, but a “Sparrow doth not fall,” and I fondly believe all will yet be well. I know not what to think of the notice friends seem to take of me and my letters, written hurriedly amid a thousand interruptions, and with nothing but my knees for a table, and getting pretty weary before closing.
As a “journal” I should be glad to have them preserved as my own impressions and experience of [“]Life in the Army during the great Rebellion.” If they are of any further value, hope they will be corrected, and I am only too happy to sister Abbie do the same. Recd. three of yours, before Browns. I think I get them all now. Also one from Sister May (f[r]om O). Wrote to Eddie H. and Lucy today. We are excused from Battalion Drill for two days past, leaving a little more leisure, and so I write again. Glad you recd the money. I conclude your “State Aid” is all right. You shall not want. if I had thought such would have been the case, do you think I would have come? As a soldiers wife you are entitled, to all consideration, in all that pertains to your Comfort and welfare, and just as soon as pay-day comes You will hear from me.
Your letters are generally very pleasant and I know it is natural to feel lonely but pray do not that part prey upon your mind, and one thing I believe is certain. This War Can’t last a very long while and then everything will change and that beyond Calculation. The Emancipation Act will start enterprise in many forms, besides they are going about the new Regts filling up the Regular Army, which will be easier doing now than when we are discharged.
Have been somewhat ill, of late, from Cold water &c but that is different here, like home and am better, and like myself[.]
Remember me to the friends at O. with thanks for their letters. Must close, as letter[s] have to be mailed at Dress Parade which is close at hand.
As ever your devoted
husband
Jerome
P.S. It is impossible to write whole letters in ink. It is scarce, and nothing to set an ink stand on. H.H.M. thanks you very kindly for the same. He read it over two or three times.
My dearest Wife,
I [sic: A] generous bunch of letters lie here before me—arrived today—also the package [of] letters &c by Seargent [sic] B, and altho’ I mailed a letter but a few moments before he came I will add another today for you at Orange where I suppose you will rec[e]ive this. Well my dear, I thank you as your nearest friend for so remembering me, it keeps the spirits bright to get such. I hope you will gradually rise through the darkened hours, which I know will rise, through all the questioning, to a noble, and cheerful resignation to the way which seems marked out for us, for surely where come tears and heart sundering, but there shall be a Compensation and reward, somewhere in the future. Ah, Allie, on the ground, these many nights, when naught but the stars and pale moon seemed to give any light to the weary soldier, I have meditated the strange problem that I was away here from those most dear to me? I cannot tell all in words, but I trust—trust—and what more can we do? I know you are not alone, but a “Sparrow doth not fall,” and I fondly believe all will yet be well. I know not what to think of the notice friends seem to take of me and my letters, written hurriedly amid a thousand interruptions, and with nothing but my knees for a table, and getting pretty weary before closing.
As a “journal” I should be glad to have them preserved as my own impressions and experience of [“]Life in the Army during the great Rebellion.” If they are of any further value, hope they will be corrected, and I am only too happy to sister Abbie do the same. Recd. three of yours, before Browns. I think I get them all now. Also one from Sister May (f[r]om O). Wrote to Eddie H. and Lucy today. We are excused from Battalion Drill for two days past, leaving a little more leisure, and so I write again. Glad you recd the money. I conclude your “State Aid” is all right. You shall not want. if I had thought such would have been the case, do you think I would have come? As a soldiers wife you are entitled, to all consideration, in all that pertains to your Comfort and welfare, and just as soon as pay-day comes You will hear from me.
Your letters are generally very pleasant and I know it is natural to feel lonely but pray do not that part prey upon your mind, and one thing I believe is certain. This War Can’t last a very long while and then everything will change and that beyond Calculation. The Emancipation Act will start enterprise in many forms, besides they are going about the new Regts filling up the Regular Army, which will be easier doing now than when we are discharged.
Have been somewhat ill, of late, from Cold water &c but that is different here, like home and am better, and like myself[.]
Remember me to the friends at O. with thanks for their letters. Must close, as letter[s] have to be mailed at Dress Parade which is close at hand.
As ever your devoted
husband
Jerome
P.S. It is impossible to write whole letters in ink. It is scarce, and nothing to set an ink stand on. H.H.M. thanks you very kindly for the same. He read it over two or three times.
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Jerome Peirce 1862, From Jerome to Allie, October 9, 1862, HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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