March 18, 1864
I arrived safely yesterday. There were sixty-seven pairs of
socks in the bag I brought up instead of sixty-four, as you supposed, and I
found here three dozen pairs of beautiful white-yarn socks, sent over by our
kind cousin Julia and sweet little Carrie, making one hundred and three pairs,
all of which I sent to the Stonewall brigade. One dozen of the Stuart socks had
double heels. Can you not teach Mildred1 that stitch? They sent me
also some hams, which I had rather they had eaten. I pray that you may be
preserved and relieved from all your troubles, and that we may all be again
united here on earth and forever in heaven.
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1 His daughter.
SOURCE: John William Jones, Life and Letters of
Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Man, p. 298-9
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