Augusta County: Jesse Rolston, Jr., to Mary Rolston, March 8,
1862
Summary:
Rolston addresses issues of family business and discusses his inability to gain a furlough in
order to visit at home.
March 8th 1862
Camp Alleghany
Dear wife
I seat myself to inform am still enjoying good health and wishing when this may reach you it will find you enjoying the same blessing that our god has bestowed upon me. I received your letter yesterday evening which was dated the 2nd. I was glad to hear that you all was well and hearty but i was sorry to hear that you was disappointed in my [not] coming home but I thought it best to tell you the truth. I don't see any chance of a well man to get away from here without running off and I don't like to do that without a good cause but if sickness get in our family I will strain all the nerves I have I will raise the blockades and come home let the consequences be what it may or will try but if it is so that I don't get home you must trust in providence. I think you will have some neighbors that will give you and you need not be uneasy about me volunteering before i see you and the children thats one thing certain. concerning the barger business I have written to you the first of October so I thought you knew that we owed [owed] him. there has been several letters I sent that I received no answers. I sent some money to you with J. Skeles [Skyles] when he was here last $21 it was. I sent 2 other letters one by mail one by F.J. Sheats. write whether you received them or not. we have had some two or three very cold weather snowing and sleating raining as usual. Smith Jones wants some 20 bushels of corn. he said they would pay the money down when they take it away but i think it best for to get the money first as you know him as well as I do. if you have the corn to spare write me and if he pays me i will write to you for he said he would pay when we draw again. it is due us now but its uncertain when we get it.
So no more at present but remain yours until separated by death
Mary Rolston from Jesse Rolston
Mary Rolston
