Georgia:  Morgan County: Letter from Sarah Elizabeth Reid Saffold to her 
husband, Thomas Peter Saffold
Buckhead, Georgia
Nov. 5th, 1863
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Letter from Sarah Elizabeth Reid Saffold to her husband, Thomas Peter
Saffold:


Buckhead, Georgia

Nov. 5th, 1863


Your kind letter of Monday was received last night my dear Husband. I 
feel much relieved to learn that you are feeling better than when you 
wrote the day before, and hope that you will continue to improve. It is 
certainly a great blessing to have you keep your health since you must be 
army. It makes the discomforts and duties of camp life -?-. You wished to 
know in one of your last letters what Mr. Johnson was doing, he has been 
here ever since last Thursday filling the crib in the lot. Warren says 
they will finish hauling by Weds. Mr Johnson leaves every thing with 
Warren and Uncle Miles. He has not stayed here a single night to see the 
cows pent up. Mr Johnson never tells any thing unless specially 
questioned with inference to each matter. He has taken dinner here each 
day since I returned from Eatonton, and yet I know no more about matters 
in general than if I had not seen him in a month. I will give your 
instructions about the hay at dinner.  I think I shall go in and spend 
the day with Mother tomorrow. Jenny is still with her. By the way, you 
inquired after Ben, he has been walking out doors for the last few days. 
I had a great deal of trouble with him, to make him either get up or sit 
up. When he was once he was unwilling to exert himself in the least. I 
had to threaten to have him dragged out of the bed feet foremost or head 
foremost right on the floor before I could bring him to his senses. I 
have never written you of Mrs Wright's letter.  My letter did not reach 
her until she had engaged to open a select school.  She assures me she 
will come as soon as she is at liberty. She is very sad at the loss of 
her husband, she tells me that he was her earthly all, you know I have 
often spoken of her attachment to him. Sidney improves every day and has 
more and more of our darling Willie's ways. When I go down to Eatonton 
again I shall plant out their burial place, the least attention I can pay 
their memory's, a sad yet *****pleasure. Oh! how my soul yearns after 
them in their contrasting characters; Willie in his manly surety and
self reliance. Seaborn so lovely in his winning gentleness and
trustfulness. May their memory ever be with us to turn us away from sin,
and stimulate us in our efforts to win a home with them in Heaven. God 
have mercy upon us. With love


Your Wife S. Sal__


(The Ben that Sarah wrote about was an old black slave. Willie and 
Seaborn were her young children who died during the War Between the 
States due to yankee blockades causing a scarcity of medicine. Her 
husband's son by his first marriage, Marion, also died during this time. 
It is believed they are all three buried at Eatonton in unmarked graves 
in the Reid plot.)