June 4th.
Little one, you wrote me that you wanted longer letters, and
now just prepare yourself to have your wish gratified. You say that your
husband never writes you any news. I suppose you meant military news, for I
have written you a great deal about your esposo and how much he loves
you. What do you want with military news? Don't you know that it is unmilitary
and unlike an officer to write news respecting one's post? You wouldn't wish
your husband to do an unofficer-like thing, would you? I have a nice, green
yard, and if you were only here, how much we could enjoy it together! But do
not attempt to come, as before you could get here I might be ordered elsewhere.
My chamber is on the second story, and the roses climb even to that height, and
come into my window, so that I have to push them out, when I want to lower it.
I wish you could see with me the beautiful roses in the yard and garden, and
upon the wall of the house here; but my sweet, little sunny face is what I want
to see most of all. Little one, you are so precious to somebody's heart! I have
been greatly blessed by our kind Heavenly Father, in health and otherwise,
since leaving home. The troops here have been divided into brigades, and the
Virginia forces under General Johnston constitute the First Brigade, of which I
am in command.
SOURCE: Mary Anna Jackson, Life and Letters of
General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), p. 159
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