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Record Group Number: 900000
Collection Number: M92- 1
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Collection/Series Title: Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925.
Container: 00006
File Unit: 00006.00001
Item: 00016
Title: Letter, December 23, 1864, T.W. Brevard, "Near Petersburg, Va," to Mary Call Brevard, 3 pp., conveying war and family news: "Everything is very quiet with us here . . . it is very different towards the South. A heavy expedition has just sailed for Wilmington, and matters of interest will soon transpire in that direction. And Sherman has completely [illegible] Savannah, and claims that it is in effect already in his hands. . . Since the great [illegible] at Atlanta every thing has gone wrong with us; indeed I do not believe the President has ever muddled with the management of military affairs, that misfortune has not resulted. . . he has projected the most preposterous campaigne, that was ever known to history. I feel very anxious about Florida . . . I wrote Wilk . . . and urged upon him the importance of making arrangements to transfer a portion of the negro force to some point in Georgia. . . What makes Tallahassee so gay? I suppose the numerous bridals. It seems to me that the people must be either very frivolous or very heartless to forget the grave posture of our public affairs. . . As these gayeties however have been generally led by the Gambles, who studiously decline a representation in the army, I mean the fighting portion of it, perhaps it ought not to excite our 'special wonder.' . . It is so cold that I can scarcely hold my pen. . ."
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