August 17, 1861
. . . You want to know whether I could get a furlough. My
darling, I can't be absent from my command, as my attention is necessary in
preparing my troops for hard fighting should it be required; and as my officers
and soldiers are not permitted to go and see their wives and families, I ought
not to see my esposita, as it might make the troops feel that they were
badly treated, and that I consult my own pleasure and comfort regardless of
theirs: so you had better stay at Cottage Home for the present, as I do not know
how long I shall remain here.
SOURCE: Mary Anna Jackson, Life and Letters of
General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), p. 183
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