Camp Quien Sabe
May 28 1862.
Dearest Wife,
--
I recd
yours of the 25th to-day, and was delighted to hear how pleasantly
you were fixed. I had been very uneasy
about Little Flora – bless her heart. I
think you might come down at any time for although the battle may come off to-day
or tomorrow or any other day, still it might be some time. I want you near me but it would be well to
have a rockaway with which Bob could drive with you out of the way of immediate
danger of attack – I think I could get such a one. My Hd Qrs are at a charming place in the outskirts of Richmond. Mr Fontaine’s. The sweetest place I ever saw.
They say I must come right here if I should be wounded, which I shall
certainly do.
A.P. Hill is a
Major General and I have heard a dozen reports that I was one – but I have not
received my commission. I would like to
get it before the battle, -- as it would give important command. I am sanguine of Victory. If you want me “come a runnin,” when
you can [illegible] can see some one on the st to tell send me word by. I pass through Richmond frequently. Love to ours. Roper’s wound is not very severe.
In haste love