My dear Mr Hopkins,

                        I take great pleasure in acknowledging the book, "From Bull Run to Appomattox", which you were kind enough to send me. I have read it with great pleasure. The author deserves great credit for the lucid style in which he has recited the stirring events and scenes of those four years of toil and sacrifice. It is a graphic description of the picture from "Bull Run to Appomatox" and of a boy's / view of that awful tragedy. Reading it, an old Cavalryman lives over his experiences of a half century agone as if it were but yesterday, and views, as in a moving picture, those splendid figures of Lee and Stuart and Jackson, and other immortilles, leading the boyhood and manhood of the South to imperishable fame.

 

                        I hope to meet you again and talk over those by gone days of heroism and splendid achievement.

 

Thanking you for the book—

            I am yours sincerely in / the Comradship of '61-'65

                                                                                    J. N. Turner

                                                                                                Ruxton, Md.

Apl. 29, 1918. /

 

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I met this courtly fine looking gentleman on the car He looks every inch a soldier. When I entered the car a young lady got up and offered me a seat this ex-soldier at once sprang to his feet and made her take his seat although he is 2 years my senior but not at all feeble as I am A little later a seat was vacant aside by my side and he took it. We got into a conversation with the result that I discovered that he was an old Comrade of the 10^th Va Cav. while I was of the 6^th. He commanded a company—and was in about all the battles that I was

 

Of course I offered him a copy of Bull Run to Ap.

                                                                                    LWH

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