Item Description: A letter from W.D. Wharton to his future wife Mollie. Wharton was from North Carolina and served in the Confederate Cavalry in Virginia. Here he describes a narrow escape from Spring Creek, Virginia, and thanks God for sparing him.
Citation: From Folder 7 in the W.D Wharton Papers, #5059, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Transcription:
Spring Creek Va. Dec 2nd 1864
My Dear Mollie,
Fearing that you will hear of the capture of Spring Creek & all the men there, I send a man to Belfield Station to mail a letter to you to relieve you, I will now tell you how I made my escape. Capt. Waldhauer just – as the Yanks came in eight – ordered me to camp to bring out men that had not reported, & just as I got in about two hundred guards of the Depot, they made a charge, & captured the place, with all the men that were there. & I left there. I feel my thankful to & all wise providence that I am spared. I have not time to write more. Will write you soon, if you write direct your letter to this Brigade, & I can get them from there.
Good by my Mollie, “Will”
Direct this way,
W.D. Wharton
Col. 5th N.C. Cav.
Barringer’s Brigade
A.Ct. Va.