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Johnson’s Island, Near Sandusky
Nov 13th 1863
Dear Friend
You did me great injustice in a letter to Dick Lacy by saying that as soon as I left Nashville I had forgotten you. What reason had you for accusing me so unjustly? The only reason I could discover was that I had not written to any of the ladies of the “Tea Party”. Hear me before you condemn me. Soon after I reached this place, I wrote to Miss McGavock & and few days afterwards I addressed a four pages to the little one whom I now have the honor of addressing. Am I to be accused of forgetting such friends when the mails are to be blamed? I don’t think my amiable little friend you can in the goodness of your heart accuse me of forgetfulness now when I wrote you such a long letter & am so willing to write another when I heard you had not received it. You ought to know me better instead of “out of sight, out of mind”, as you have said, you are first & always in my thoughts. Does my little friend ever look back upon the past & call a kindly recollection on the attentive Teasley, the escort of picked men from the escort of “Little Ive”. Headed by the “three Dicks”, the moon light rides both on horseback & in a jolting wagon the capsization of the baggage wagon when Harriet allowed herself to be mingled in confusion with the many trunks and companions that you ladies travelled with & poking her head from under your tremendous “Saratoga” & cried for help & think too Dick Clouston & myself ate up the remains of a basket of lunch & when you sent for it I told you it had all turned over in the sand, was at that time seated on a stump eating for life on a pone of bread & a large bacon bone, that you and Dick Lacy had done justice to at dinner when I got
Object Description
| Title | Civil War Correspondence. Richard H. Adams, Jr. to Lottie Putnam Adams, 1863-1866 |
| Creator | Adams, Richard H. -- (Richard Henry), -- 1841-1896. |
| Date (text) | 1863 November - 1866 September |
| Date (search/sort) | 1863; 1864; 1865; 1866 |
| Descriptive Note | Letters from Richard H. Adams, Jr. to Lottie Putnam (later his wife). Adams, a Confederate officer, was a prisoner of war in various military prisons. |
| Biographical Note | Richard H. Adams, Jr. b. 1841 at "Altwood", Marengo County, Alabama; served as officer during Civil War with 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment and in Engineer Corps on General Wheeler's staff, captured near Nashville; prisoner of war Sept. 1863-June 1865, one of "immortal 600"; engineer after war; d. 1896 at Radford, Virginia. |
| Manuscript Collection | Richard H. Adams, Jr. papers |
| Manuscript Collection (Sort Title) |
Adams, Richard H., Jr., papers |
| Manuscript Number | MS 0358 |
| Digital Subcollection |
Civil War Letters, Diaries and Manuscripts |
| Subjects (People) |
Adams, Richard H. -- (Richard Henry), -- 1841-1896. Adams, Lottie Putnam |
| Subjects (Topics) |
Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 5th. Fort Delaware (Del.) Morris Island (S.C.) Johnson Island Prison. Hilton Head Island (S.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women. Point Lookout (Md.) Soldiers -- Alabama -- Correspondence. |
| Guide/Finding Aid | http://archivesspace.vmi.edu/repositories/3/resources/438 |
| Form/Genre |
correspondence |
| Type (DCMI) | text |
| Digital Publisher | Virginia Military Institute Archives |
| Digital Format | image/jpeg |
| Date Digitized | 2014 |
| Scanning Information | Scanned at 300 dpi using Epson Expression 10000XL/11000XL scanner. Master tiff image on file. |
| Language | English |
| Rights | Materials in the VMI Archives Digital Collections are made available for educational and research use and may be used for non-commercial purposes with appropriate attribution. Digital content may not be redistributed, published or reproduced without permission. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright. Contact the VMI Archives for additional information. |
Description
| Title | MS0358_18631113_page001 |
| Type (DCMI) | text |
| Digital Publisher | Virginia Military Institute Archives |
| Digital Format | image/jpeg |
| Scanning Information | Scanned at 300 dpi using Epson Expression 10000XL/11000XL scanner. Master tiff image on file. |
| Language | English |
| Rights | Materials in the VMI Archives Digital Collections are made available for educational and research use and may be used for non-commercial purposes with appropriate attribution. Digital content may not be redistributed, published or reproduced without permission. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright. Contact the VMI Archives for additional information. |
| Full text transcription | Johnson’s Island, Near Sandusky Nov 13th 1863 Dear Friend You did me great injustice in a letter to Dick Lacy by saying that as soon as I left Nashville I had forgotten you. What reason had you for accusing me so unjustly? The only reason I could discover was that I had not written to any of the ladies of the “Tea Party”. Hear me before you condemn me. Soon after I reached this place, I wrote to Miss McGavock & and few days afterwards I addressed a four pages to the little one whom I now have the honor of addressing. Am I to be accused of forgetting such friends when the mails are to be blamed? I don’t think my amiable little friend you can in the goodness of your heart accuse me of forgetfulness now when I wrote you such a long letter & am so willing to write another when I heard you had not received it. You ought to know me better instead of “out of sight, out of mind”, as you have said, you are first & always in my thoughts. Does my little friend ever look back upon the past & call a kindly recollection on the attentive Teasley, the escort of picked men from the escort of “Little Ive”. Headed by the “three Dicks”, the moon light rides both on horseback & in a jolting wagon the capsization of the baggage wagon when Harriet allowed herself to be mingled in confusion with the many trunks and companions that you ladies travelled with & poking her head from under your tremendous “Saratoga” & cried for help & think too Dick Clouston & myself ate up the remains of a basket of lunch & when you sent for it I told you it had all turned over in the sand, was at that time seated on a stump eating for life on a pone of bread & a large bacon bone, that you and Dick Lacy had done justice to at dinner when I got |
