CENTREVILLE, Oct. 21st.
For several days your esposo has been here, and has
an extra nice room, the parlor of a Mr. Grigsby, who has promised that he will
also let me have another room for my chamber, and then I can use the parlor for
my office. He has very kindly offered me the use of his library. The walls of
his parlor are hung with pictures and paintings, including large portraits on
opposite sides, I suppose of the esposo and esposa. The carpet
has been removed, but an abundance of seats have been left, two settees among
them. Mr. Grigsby is apparently a man of much character, and I am very much
pleased with him. His wife is delicate, and two of his sons have typhoid fever,
but are past the critical stage of the disease. He has not yet consented to my
staff moving into the house, probably for fear of disturbing the sick. Colonel
Jones has resigned and gone home, and Mr. Marshall went with him. They are both
nice gentlemen.
SOURCE: Mary Anna Jackson, Life and Letters of
General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), p. 195-6
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