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Cite as: L.D. Bradley
Pearce Civil War Collection
Navarro College, Corsicana, Texas
Holly Springs. Oct 27t 1862.
Little Honey -
I start to write you only a very few lines. We have been at this place about
two weeks, & I have written you, besides this, two letters, one short & one long one. I have
received, also, two letters from you, got them both on the same day, & very satisfactory &
pleasant they were to me, for I had not, until then, received a line from you for about a
month. I wrote you in a former letter that Capt. W. L. Moody was sick; he still continues
sick, though not considered dangerously so. He wishes you to say to Lizzie, for fear that she
might be uneasy on account of his not writing, that he is just a little too sick to write, but not
sufficiently so to cause any apprehension or alarm. He is at a very good place - at the house
of Mrs. Andersen, a widow, about two miles west of this place - has a nice, comfortable
room, & is receiving the kindest & best attention. I do not consider him, as yet, at all in a
dangerous condition, and feel satisfied that he will be up in a few days. I wrote you in my
last letter, which I sent to Marshall Texas to be mailed on account of confusion in the P.O.
arrangements here, relative to some money which I sent you by Leroy Moody. After paying
off as I instructed in that, and the letter before, please to let me know how much you have
remaining. I believe I mentioned to you to take up a note which Mr. Jefferson holds against
me, if I did not; you will please to send the money to him - amount - $75.0 with probably
some interest.
I am writing to you altogether about business matters, Little Darling, because it is necessary
to keep such things straight. It seems to me that I, in fact I knew I would, give every Dollar
I have in the world, to see you & Bobolinks just one short hour. Please always to remember
how much I love my own little wife, & write me a great deal of love, all about Callie, her
doings & sayings, & also about business matters at the same time. This is evening & we are
ordered to leave here to-morrow morning, to go to the front. We are bound to be in the
next fight in this section of country, though there is no telling when that will be. You
intimated something, in your letter, about coming on here. I wish you distinctly to
understand, & you are to regard this as a positive & permanent order, that you are never to
attempt such a thing unless I write you especially to do so. You hav'nt the least idea of the
sort of country this is at the present time, & it would be useless for me to attempt a
description of it. All I have to say is, that a visiting lady would be entirely out of place. The
weather, too, has become quite severe; day before yesterday we had nearly as heavy a snow
as I have ever seen in Texas. I have no time to write longer Little Honey. Please to write
regularly, & direct to this place until I write you to the contrary. Kiss Bobolinks. De