September 25th, 1860.
In answer to your question how you are to come, I should
say, with your husband, if no other arrangement can be effected. If you don't
meet with an opportunity of an escort to New York or farther, see if the doctor
can't get you one to Springfield, upon the condition that you pay the expense.
I don't want you to pass through Springfield alone, as you have to change cars
there, and you might meet with some accident; but as visitors invite the doctor
to make excursions with them, can't you invite him to make one with you to
Springfield, and after he sees you on the right train, sit in the same car
until you reach the depot in New York, where you may expect to find your esposo
waiting for you? Be sure to write, and also telegraph, as I would rather go
all the way to Round Hill than for you to come through Springfield alone. Your
husband feels bright, and the light of his approaching little sunshine makes
him still brighter. Whenever you write or telegraph for him, you may expect him
to come for you in double-quick time.
SOURCE: Mary Anna Jackson, Life and Letters of
General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), p. 135-6
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