Henrietta Webb Letters

August 12 /61

We have had no letter from you my dearest son since the one sent by Graham Morrow [?]. I have learned that your Regiment had left ____ [?] town and am doubtful whether you can get this letter if directed there, but I must write. I cannot describe the emotion, of my heart when the tiding came that your best friend and one on whom you ___ to ____ [?], had been taken from you. I felt great sympathy for his mother, but no doubt it is all well with him now. Cousin James Morrow has gone to see after poor Jerry [?]. He has measles, I fear it will go hard with him you know what a delicate boy he was, the Dr thinks he should not have gone. Ada [?] and Betty have gone to Greensboro, have been gone a week tomorrow, Ada [?] has written to you as she intended writing as soon as she got there. Dr. Fisher reports Henrietta about the same.

This will be a great help. We have had a plenty of nice fat ___[?] in the last week or two and ___ [?] understands cooking it pretty well. I have just rec'd a letter from Tip since I began to write. He was at Greensboro. He tells me ___ [?] of his belonging to the 13th reg. N.C. now at M___[?]. I am anxious to hear from him. His letter was written over a week ago. How is sister Etta? You haven't mentioned her in your last letters. We have had much wet weather lately. Now the rain is falling on the tent [?]. I hope to see fair weather again soon. I suppose ___[?] of you __ this have seen Capt. ____[?] and he has told you all the news about how we are situated. We are almost entirely surrounded by water. This prevents a great deal of __ [?]