Written on blue imported paper in nice dark ink Col. E. T. H. Warren writes to his wife Jennie from “Camp Fairfax Station, Saturday afternoon”. In checking our Civil War calendar this would be August 31, 1861.
• “WE ARE ALL BACK SAFE AND SOUND HAD TWO OR THREE TURNS AT THE ENEMY KILLED 5 THAT
WE KNOW OF AND WOUNDED WE THINK SEVERAL OTHERS”
• “THE CAMP ON MUNSON’S HILL WAS BEAUTIFUL IN THE AUTUMN-IN SIGHT OF THE ENEMIES
CAMP AND THE CAPITAL AT WASHINGTON.”
Warren goes on to talk about how desperately he misses his wife. It would be another three lonely years they would be apart and unfortunately never reunite. WARREN WAS WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE IN MAY OF 1863 AND KILLED IN ACTION DURING THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS MAY 5TH, 1864.
Edward Tiffin Harrison Warren was a lawyer in Harrisonburg, Virginia prior to the war and at the time he wrote this letter was Lieutenant Colonel of the 10th. He became Colonel in May of 1862.
Check out the write-up on Warren in “Who was who in the Confederacy”. A touching, attractive piece complete with the “Paid 5” envelope dated “Fairfax Station, September 1” and addressed to “Mrs. Jennie W. Warren, Gordonsville, VA.”
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Transcription:
Camp Fairfax Station
Saturday afternoon
My own darling Jennie,
We are all safe & sound had two or three turns
at the enemy killed 5 that we know of & wounded we
think several others. The camp on Munson’s Hill was
beautiful in the Autumn -in sight of the enemies camp
& the Capital at Washington.
I have not time to write or say a word more than
that since I left you how I have been the most wretched
being on earth. I could not speak of you without the
tears coming in my eyes. I confess this weakness.
Ever yours,
E. T. H. Warren
