richmond, Sept. 12th, 1863.
Dear General,
I am on my way to join Bragg, but have some hope that I may
not visit your friends at Camp Chase. If I should get that far in the enemy's
country, however, I hope that I may be able to bring your friends to see you! . . . Hood's Division are en route and the
most of my command are rapidly moving on to Bragg. I hope that we may be with
him in ten days more.
Do not forget me because I have gone so far away from you.
I would write more, but if I should start to go further into
matters I should write more than I have time to write or you would be inclined
to read. I will reserve it for a general talk.
Most sincerely yours,
J. LONGSTREET.
SOURCE: Louise Wigfall Wright, A Southern Girl in
’61, p. 148-9
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