Sunday, March 23, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, May 2, 1862

HEADQUARTERS 54TH REGIMENT O. V. INF.,
CAMP PEA RIDGE, TENN., May 2, 1862.
MY DEAR WIFE:

To-day is the anniversary of our marriage. Can you realize so many years are buried with the dead past? Years I fear of more pain than pleasure to you. How eventful they have been!

We have marched forward still further toward Corinth. I expect an engagement shortly.

SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 201

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