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ASHAEL SUMNER DEAN

 CIVIL WAR LETTERS TO HIS FAMILY

 

 

 

 

No Date, no name, no location, however, believed to be circa Mar 10 1864

 

We are at anchor between F. Munroe and Rip Raps and the most beautiful anchorage I ever saw  It is the forts are beautiful and imposing and in the roads astern are some fifty vessels or more among them is a French a Russian &  an English Man-o-War  I may have a chance to go ashore today I may not  You will of course read to Father & the others what you find in my letters that is not meant for you alone I do not have the time to write to them seperatly yet in time I intend to send them all a letter I shall expect all the news from N.B. when you write  I always dislike to close a letter to you and that is the reason I put in these bits of scraps you need not read them unless you chose but I mean lots of love when I write them  The Admiral is very much a affected by the death of his son ( Ulric died Jan 1864-ed.) and will try to obtain his body  We sent off a boat to Butler last eve at 11 o'clock and they found him and his staff up and hard at work all in transacting the business of his department  We have not yet heard any local news  I love you very much, kiss dear birds often for their papa Did you dream of me last night?  do you dream of me often?  I must say a kind goodbye and hope to finish many letters in Wash.

 

                                                                                                                                Sumner

 

 

 

__ (undecipherable-ed.) when this war closes I will haste to be with you  

 

 

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