Camp Hill near Petersburg Va.
Mar. 29/64
Dear Sister
I was expecting that we would be in N.C. to day or with Cousin Robert for we have been getting ready to move all week but we have not got off yet it has been the rumored here that we were going to N.C. to meet Old Burnside who is said to be some where down on the Coast. Woe unto him if we get after him through the Piney woods in N.C. We had a heavy snow here during the past week but it has disappeared & the we ather is pleasant at present.
Our brigade will hold a meeting this evening & invite Gov. Z. B. Vance to address us while on his way from Lee’s Army to N.C. Tell Hessey she must not thank me for favors that I have not done for her. She is mistaken I do know why she harbored the opinion that I sent her a Valentine but since she accused me of such I wish that it was true. B. W. Whitfield Esquire has gone home on furlough I give him a Blanket an old pair of pants & one shirt to carry for me with instructions to leave it at Bryants or Uncle Winks. If any of them little Outlaw girls gets them & wears them awhile I will not claim them any more. I told him to tell Delia not to get married until she heard from her humble servant if she does not comply with my order I shall be compeld to enforce the severest penalty of the Law of Matrimony against her & employ Cupid as my attorney &c!
Poor Margaret she caused her old Friend to go blind with a Valentine. I shall never correspond with her! Some of the boys has ruined my pen & you see the result by looking at this letter! What is the cause of you not writing last week. Was the snow so deep that it was impossible to get to Fords? Write soon & give me all the news. Your Afft. Brother Wm. H. Grady Co. C 51st N.C.T.
Source: William H. Grady Papers, North carolina State Archives.
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