WILLIAM FRANCIS BRAND CIVIL WAR LETTERS
This collection, 1856 (1857-1866) 1959, ca. 134 items, chiefly consists of Civil War letters written by Confederate Soldier William Francis Brand (1840-1936), Augusta County, Virginia, to Amanda Catherine Armentrout, his future wife and a Greenville, Augusta County resident. Brand was a private in Company E (the Augusta Grays), 5th Virginia Regiment, Stonewall Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia.
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-Mary D. Edwards Summer 2000
1859-1866, 1867 & 1871-1874 37 items Correspondence of Amanda C. Armantrout Brand 11332
[The following letter is damaged an approx. 1/4 of the letter is missing.]
Arbor Hill,
Augusta Co. Va.
Jany. 11 - 1866
[Dear] Midie -
According to provinse, [sic]
____ enclosed to you, the Catalogue
____ of C. C. S. at the time
____ & others frequented that ever Mem -
____ spot, as the happy juvenile period
____ lives. But such blissful scenes of
____ are pleasant reminiscenes [sic], of they
____ not intercepted by the mountains of
____ which have painted sorrow on the
brow, or sadness in the expression.
"Bill Arp" is out this week! have you seen his "Karde"? til splendid - no counterfeit = every word he says, hits & hurts - tell my good friend, your Ma, that she must read or have read. On which side do you wear the long narrow ribbon? Am anxious to know
Did you get safely home? many right long looks and sighs were made after your departure on Saturday; I had thought I could claim the oldest right, but alas! the youngest right supercedes; does your
Ma allow her daughter ____
best friend she has, ____
If you see anything ____
over your way, just send the ____
property over this way, & repor____
the "Freed - Men’s _____".
the Yankees were to leave ____
the F.s.B. the most hateful ____
ments. But I suppose ____
Paul did. Wish to be ____
to your Ma & Pa, sisters & all: be ____
your Ma see this.
Very affectionately Y____
Geor___
P.S. Do not I pray you let any one see that list, - or intimate its wherewith [sic], as few know that I have it.
May I not insist on the acknowledgement, of the receipt of this.
Your friend
G.
N. B. Do not read the Note enclosed to Mollie, as its contents are preciously bedewed with secrecies.
To "Midie" Yours ‘till death G.