A. Moore, Jr. & Son

Attorneys-at-Law

Berryville, Virginia

October 27^th 1915

 

L. W. Hopkins Esq.,

            100 East Lexington St.,

                        Baltimore, Md.,

 

Dear Mr. Hopkins,-

                                    Mrs. Morre received your letter of the 22^nd Instant and also the book dedicated by you to her church enterprise. I paid her a dollar for the book and she permits me to thank you for your contribution and to acknowledge your letter.

 

                                    The book I have read hastily, but with great interest, accompanied by a feeling of surprise that such a book should have been written and put upon the market without catching my attention. I was a member of Company D, 6^th Va. Cavalry, having enlisted about the time you say you enlisted. I joined the regiment while it was camped near Orange Court House in August July 1862 and served in it for the remainder of the war, except for the brief period mentioned below. Like yourself I was captured at the Yellow Tavern fight in a charge made by a handful of Company D under the immediate eye of General Stuart after the dismounted men had been repulsed. I shared with you the fatigue and other pains of the tramp from Yellow Tavern to Harrison's landing and was with you at Point Lookout. There can be no doubt that you and I were well known to each other at that time and while I have an indistinct recollection of one of your name as belonging to Company A, I have no other recollection on the subject. I left Point Lookout on the 16^th of August 1864 bound / for Elmira, New York, but bidding my guard an unostentatious adieu the following night turned my face towards Dixie, where I landed ten days after. Your narrative brings back to my memory many incidents that had faded from it and I am greatly indebted to you for having done so. I think you are quite right in the opinion you entertain that all of the old soldiers should jot down their individual experiences and it has been in my mind to do so, but I have lead a very busy life and time has been wanting to put the purpose into execution. If I can make up my mind to lay aside my professional labors long enough before the final end to write down what I can now recall of the events of my soldier's life, I still intend to do so. I not unfrequently see your old Captain Dr. Plaster, who enjoys good health and vigorous mental faculties at the age of eighty seven. I also occasionally see Tom Miley, who if I mistake not was a member of your Company and who has met with a fair share of business success in his life. Mason Hummer, who was also a member of your Company is still hale and hearty at the age of eighty two or three.

 

                                    If it shall be my good fortune to visit Baltimore soon I shall endeavor to call at the address given in your letter and renew my acqaintance with you.

 

                                                                                    Yours very truly,

 

                                                                                    A. Moore jr

 

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Turn to page 196 my book and you will see A. Moore jr in the person of "a young fellow from Clarke" go back to page 195 and begin at the last paragraph on that page

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