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The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Spirited letter from a Virginia lady to a Lincoln Hireling. (search)
A Spirited letter from a Virginia lady to a Lincoln Hireling. Camp Near Lewisburg, Regi'tal Headq'rs 16th Tenn. Vola., November 19, 1861.
Editors Dispatch: I here with send you a precise copy of a private letter taken from the person of one of the company of prisoners taken by Col. Savage, on the 11th September, in one of the valleys near Cheat Mountain.
The letter should have appeared before the public at an earlier date, but had been misplaced and forgotten.
The gentleman from whom it was taken declares himself a Kentuckian, was Sergeant in the company, and, were we to judge from the import of the letter, had been on very intimate terms with the young lady.
The letter is getting a little ancient now; but its spirit shows the young lady to be one of the "True Blues," although she resides in Wheeling:
Wheeling, Va., August 14, 1861. Mr. W. B. McLane.--Sir:
By the reception of your letter I perceive that you are in the so-called Union army, in Western Virginia,