Winchester, November
16th
Don't you tremble when you see that you have to read such a
long letter, for I'm going to write it just as full as it can hold. And you
wish that I could have my headquarters at Mr. Grigsby's? I tell you this is a
much better place for my pet. You can have plenty of society of charming ladies
here, and the Rev. Mr. Graham, our Presbyterian minister, lives in the second
house from here, his door being only about thirty yards from our gate. This
house belongs to Lieutenant-Colonel Moore, of the Fourth Virginia Volunteers,
and has a large yard around it. The situation is beautiful. The building is of
cottage style and contains six rooms. I have two rooms, one above the other. My
lower room, or office, has a matting on the floor, a large fine table, six
chairs, and a piano. The -walls are papered with elegant gilt paper. I don't
remember to have ever seen more beautiful papering, and there are five
paintings hanging on the walls. If I only had my little woman here, the room
would be set off. The upper room is neat, but not a full story, and is, I may
say, only remarkable for being heated in a peculiar manner, by a flue
from the office below. Through the blessing of our ever-kind Heavenly Father, I
am quite comfortable. I have much work to perform, and wouldn't have much time
to talk to my darling except at night; but then there is so much pleasant
society among the ladies here that you could pass your time very agreeably. I
hope to send for you just as soon as I can do so, with the assurance that I am
in winter-quarters.
SOURCE: Mary Anna Jackson, Life and Letters of
General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), p. 209-10
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