WASHINGTON, July 26,
1861.
I can imagine you to have very many inconveniences to put up
with as you are now placed, but you must remember it is only for a season, that
better times are in store for us, and that above all we now are at war and
suffering all its horrors. Contrast your and your children's condition with
that of those who are upon or near the battlefields or on the line of march of
the armies or near their various encampments. You read of these things in the
newspapers and your blood thrills with horror, but the reading is nothing to
witnessing with your own senses the present results of this sickening
fratricidal strife. The scenes I will not pretend to write about are
continually before my eyes and I continually thank God that you and the
children are in what I consider a place of refuge.
SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 172
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