Distant Storm: Florida's Role in the Civil War

A Sesquicentennial Exhibit

"I'm sorry that we must separate"

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Civil War

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Dear Pitt-;
I’m sorry that we must separate. But it is right & necessary that we should. Literary pursuits must, for a while, be abandoned; so that we may learn the tactics of military & be prepared to meet & repel the enemy, who have sworn that we shall no longer be freemen!!
Wherever your lot may be cast, Pittman, I beg you to remember that you have the best wishes of

Your friend & roommate.

Charles M. Richards

 

Moro,
Monroe Co.
Arkansas

 

U. of Va.
April 19th,
1861

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