WILLIAM FRANCIS BRAND CIVIL WAR LETTERS

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

1856-1861 16 items Letters of John P. Lightner to Amanda C. Armentrout Brand #11332

[ca. 1856]

In my seat

Dear Friend,

You must not think that I was insulted at all, I never thought about such as thing, as getting insulted. Pshaw! That is the last thing for such friends as we have been & are now. I hope to meet you not long after we part from this beloved spot, unless death will intervene, if not on earth I hope to meet you on a happier shore. I hope to be invited, as one, in the church, striving for the kingdom of heaven before much of my time passes away. I wanted to go to N. Providence during the sacrament there but the school was so nigh at a close I give it out. It was my wish to join then, but A. it’s not the joining of the church, merely, that saves us all, but we must have the heart, cleansed by the blood of Christ. It is my desire to join and I want to do so.

may God bless you for that note, the means of bringing me to God.

J. G. L.

[The fourth page of the above letter is addressed to: Miss A. C. Armentrout}