We rode out to Bro. Will's today, Sister, the children and
I; had a pleasant day; returned at nightfall, to be met by the alarming news
that of Sister's two boys, Edmund [the Captain] is slightly wounded, and
William missing, perhaps killed! . . .
The household is wrapped in gloom. Mr. P. thinks from what he heard of the
fearful loss in Pickett's Division, that William is most probably killed.
SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and
Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 168
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