charlottesville, July 22nd.
As you see this was written before I had heard of the return
of our Army to Va. . . . Your father returned on Sunday from Richmond and says
young Lee told him he had left you well two days before. We came here on
Monday. The people in the house where we were in Orange determined to take no
more boarders. They say their supplies have given out, etc. We are staying here
at Dr. Dice's on the Ridge. It is a beautiful spot and just near enough to the
centre of the town to be a pleasant walk. How I wish you could pay us a little
visit! Now you have got back to “old Virginny's shore” I hope to hear from you
occasionally. The Administration party is bitter against Genl. Johnston, but
the public will sustain him and it isn't thought true that he is to be
superseded. I have just done writing Mrs. J. a long letter. . . .
SOURCE: Louise Wigfall Wright, A Southern Girl in
’61, p. 143-4
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