New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-19

Il
4 Wemake the following extract from one of our
| Jackson contemporaries:
While in Vickshurg recently, we were shown the
original OF the following touching letter from
lady Ia Kentucky, whose husband was a Gonfeda
rate surgeon. and who died and was buried at
Yicksbnrg. Being uncertain az to his fate she adj
dressed letter to the Masonic fraternity Of yicks
burg, and true to the noble character of the
brotherhood in that city all the particulars of his
hia death and burial possible to obtain were trans
mitted to her. On receipt Of her1etter, we under-
stand that the fraternity resolved to send the re.
mains TO her. We apprehend there are but few
who will read this letter, but with those emotions
that prompt the involuntary tear 1t is beautiful
1t is w0manly:
-----. KY, Feb. TO- 1866.
Brothe''-Y our very kind and anxiously looked
how welcome it was to me; how nv heart bas
yearned to know where my loved husband was
buried none but God knows. Kind brother. ynmr
letter was balm and healing, to my stricken heart
On It IS such comfort to know my 4 Jamie's,,
grave is not nameless; that have found it, For
| three long weary years have sighed and yearned
70 Know the particulars Of my idolized husbands
SICKNESS ana death: Brother, while reading your
letter, felt as If my heartstrngs would snap
asunder, SO intense were my feelings of mingled
JOY and sorrow. ! would could tell YOU now
much 4 thank you for your kind sympathizue
letter for your earnest cndeavor to find out all
so much wished to know. But I think YOU will
pardon me II use no g hackneyedn phrase save
the simple g thank you.n
Brother, the agony endured, when heard my
! !, jamie was dead may never be written. And
the knowledge OF his dying a stranger in a
strange land, without friend to soothe him IN
his last hours, added poignancy to my grief. But
on the agony, when would think OF a " name
less grave, without board, stone, grass, or flower
TO mark his last resting place. How Oft. with
fancy's eye, have gazed on the lone, desolate
grave, and knew not where it was tell YOU his
that you may know how your letter soothed me-
4. ~ VIII never be given to me to look upon my
husband grave, and it is not in my power to have
his remains brought home for, alas the war has
reduced me to pennry. There is nothing left OF
my once beautiful home, save the memory of it
and my negroes being freed, and other casualties,
moved. 81 s,g IA - y
Brether will you not ask the Mason's wives and
daughters, IN that far of sunny land to plant one
r4se , cea u nus head for me- and when spring
twlne wreath and place 1t upon the crave of him
VINO, ior the sake of their vineclad land sacrificed
al he had, even his own precious life
yo nroahst and w1ts p'sa So so visit Dr
aa evergreen sprig. then take it up and enclose il |
in letter to me. OIL itseems to me while
wr,tlng thus, a. i ny soul would burst its bounds
a % VIZ s ,,,s He was idol
upon. Oh! the deep unalloyed happiness of those
nine short years lived with him--ittle dreaminr |
my name wanld ever be written widow, Yefa
as ueeply as my heart mourns and cannot
be comtorted, because my 9 jamie = il
no more, ! have never regretted that he
Joined the "rebel army / use the term
\ rebel' because love it most Yes! call them
" rebels' or any other name they are, in my es
sination, ''band of laurel crowned heroes.n
Please excuse this digression did not intend it.
have already written enough to weary you and
i forget am writing to q stranger But know
You are my friend. and yonr home is in the State
that holds my husband q grave Mississippi How
that name will ever strike keynote in my soul.
Brother, one more request and am done. Please,
when the board decays. which now marks my
/" Jamis's'' grave replace il by another, with his
name upon il. Do not think me presnmptuous,
nnt ~ wife, love for her husband be my excuse
Tor thus troahnig vou.
s4a a. xipssss vaitfag your reply,
MI iiaye the honor to be your sister,
aN sa 4FF ts III Nv in Honp and Eharifv