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Confederate States Treasury Department Richmond, Nov. 22d, 1861.
Kemp P. Battle Esqr, Raleigh, N. C.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 10th, Instant, you are informed that the Securities to which you allude are taxable and should be returned as they stood on the 1st. day of October last, - I send under different cover a copy of printed circular to which you are referred for further information.
Very Respectfully,
C G Hemminger Secretary of Treasury.
List votes of Nevill
Bank of Cape Fear, Wilmington, N. C., Novr. 16, 1861.
Honl Wm H Battle
My Dear Sir
Your letter of the 13th was not recd until this morning— Without the least inconvenience and with much pleasure I have attended to your request, and enclose check on Branch at Raleigh for #344 the aggregate of the three dividends encd as per statement below— I thank you sincerely for your kind congratulations on my appointment of President of the Bank of Cape Fear, yet I am more gratified and my thanks are more especially due for your affectionate reference to my truly lamented brother.
He was indeed as you say of him "a pure kind hearted christian gentleman", and the numerous expressions of condolence and sympathy which have been tendered to me, have been truly gratifying—
His sufferings for one or two months prior to his death were agonising, and when he ceased to breathe I was forced to exclaim— he is at rest with him to die is gain— I would do and suffer much if I could be assured I should have a name as spotless as his.
With great regard & esteem
Very Truly & Sincerely [illegible signature]
Mr H B - 28 cham - 8 pr ct $224 M. P. B. 5 " " " 40 J. N. L. 10 " " " 80 Amt of Acct - $344
Columbia Oct. 24th 1861
My Dear Wife/
Tuesday evening was a fortunate time for me as it brought me letters both from yourself and Kemp— The letter of the latter gave me a later account than yours of his wife and Sue and represented their condition as to health somewhat more favorable— And so we have another grandchild, a little Lucy Plummer— I am loving her already for the associations which the name brings to remembrance— Kemp seems to regret that Richard has won the prize, but says that he still stands a chance for a Lucy Martin—
I am glad to hear that you were going to Raleigh and thence to Warrenton, but I am selfish enoguh to wish that you will return home at as early a day as you can I expect, from what I hear from Mr. Richard Smith that you will find your brothers better that you have been led to expect suppose.
If nothing occurs to prevent, I shall take the case for Pendleton tomorrow morning, and if so I shall be with Mary to-morrow evening— I wrote her day before yesterday that I would go up, unless I should feel too unwell to do so. I was taken with a palpitation of the heart on Monday, which prevented me from sleeping in the night of that day, and it had not gone off when I wrote
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