Robeson County NcArchives History - Letters .....Mother To Pvt. James Ervin Douglas April 27, 1862 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tim Bradshaw timbradsjr@yahoo.com December 3, 2010, 7:41 am Letter from Eleanor More Douglas Branch in Lumberton, Robeson county, NC, to her son Private James Ervin Douglas Lumberton April 27, 1862 I now seat myself to write you a few lines to inform you that I am well and I hope these few lines will reach you the same/ I have heard from you several times that you was well and a good boy and want you to remain so/ I have not seen your brother since the morning you left/ I heard from him and he was very poorly and I want to go see him but I thought I would wait until you would come and go with me/ I heard that you were coming home last week and you did not and I got very uneasy about you and I am in hopes you will come as soon as you can/ I want you to write to me if you saw my husband/ he left here last Wednesday morning on his way back to the camp/ Give my love and best respects to Addison, Utley, James Bethea and I want to know if Addison has been to see his Mother yet and I want to know how you like to stay in camp/ Give my best respects to William Tyner and tell him that I say for him to be a friend to you/ Dorsey McNeill says he wants to see you very bad, that he thought as much of you as if you were his own son/ I want to see you very bad, the worst I ever did and I am in hopes I will see you soon/ I will bring my letter to a close/ Write soon. Eleanor Branch to Ervin Douglas Additional Comments: Posted by permission of Steve Edgerton, http://www.capefearclans.com/CivilWarLetters.html File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/history/letters/motherto32ms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb