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1862-05-25 William E. Thorpe to Alfred Thorpe Page 2
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for a canteen of milk and bought a quart the next morning for ten cents. After getting back to camp we had to pack up and move to this place about half a mile from the city on the plank road to Richmond We have got a very pretty camp now but I suppose just as soon as we get fairly settled we will have to change camp again or move forward. This morning I passed outside of the brigade lines and went down to the city cemetery and saw the tombs and monument of the Gordon family (which is about forty rods from the cemetery) where it is said Washington's Mother is burried tell me in your next letter if she was a Gordon as I have forgotten. The secesh soldiers have used the monument and the brick wall surrounding the graves as a target and the marble is covered with names in pencil marks Such sacrilegeous proceedings ought to be published to the world to their eternal shame and disgrace The weather is getting quite warm the flowers all in bloom and I even saw a field of wheat yesterday as we came in headed out Oh yes I must not forget to tell you a sight I saw in the morning which is the first real plantation scene I have yet seen it was a darkey with a mule hitched to a cultivator with three
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for a canteen of milk and bought a quart the next morning for ten cents. After getting back to camp we had to pack up and move to this place about half a mile from the city on the plank road to Richmond We have got a very pretty camp now but I suppose just as soon as we get fairly settled we will have to change camp again or move forward. This morning I passed outside of the brigade lines and went down to the city cemetery and saw the tombs and monument of the Gordon family (which is about forty rods from the cemetery) where it is said Washington's Mother is burried tell me in your next letter if she was a Gordon as I have forgotten. The secesh soldiers have used the monument and the brick wall surrounding the graves as a target and the marble is covered with names in pencil marks Such sacrilegeous proceedings ought to be published to the world to their eternal shame and disgrace The weather is getting quite warm the flowers all in bloom and I even saw a field of wheat yesterday as we came in headed out Oh yes I must not forget to tell you a sight I saw in the morning which is the first real plantation scene I have yet seen it was a darkey with a mule hitched to a cultivator with three
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