[Letter to] Miss Deborah Weston
Contributors: Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient
Series: Deborah Weston Correspondence (1830-1879)
Published: 1862
Place of publication: Camp Barry, Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

In this letter, Augustus Hesse wrote: "Herewith I informe [sic] you and my Wife, that we got Marching Order, but we do not know where to--" He requests that Deborah Weston not send him the box now, until he knows more about their movements. Hesse said: "They say a great Battle is going on--all the Boys are in great spirits and eager to fight." Hesse ends the letter with this thought: "I shall not forget you even in the hotest Battle."

The battle mentioned in this letter is the Battle of Fredericksburg.