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Claude Denson to Matilda Cowan Denson February 29, 1864

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Title	Claude Denson to Matilda Cowan Denson February 29, 1864
Subject	Denson, Cowan, Civil War, Correspondence, Apology, Argument
Description	Claude Denson writes his wife to resolve a conflict between the two and apologize for his poorly phrased remarks.
Transcription	my stay which had the slightest reference to that subject. I’d not even express my desire to see you or the baby, or anything of that sort. While in Wilmington, when your Grandma said something about my loneliness, you Ma turned to me in the presence of Mrs. Cowan and others and remarked - asked if I was tired of being in the army. Why not be Mrs. Cowan’s overseer, and then I could be at home all the time. She did not mean anything, you know, except to say something pleasantly, but it jams bitterly on a heart so [unknown] and away as mine, but which thank God, but not the less with love of country and desire to do my duty. I told her she was somewhat mistaken. It was not duty I wished to fly from, on the contrary, of a furlough can offer me that. I would not go to Pittsboro. We sat up till half past nine, and I took the [unknown] of [unknown] conversations upstairs to read the rest of the last chapter Ester. Yes, I have at last been in your room, not as I could have gone with you at my side, or to [unknown] at the door. But [unknown] in the spirit of a pilgrim to the spot saved to me, where your young girl life was spent. I can enter into it all by the magic of love. How sweet and white and pure it all is. So like yourself everywhere. Henry [unknown] slept with me, and was very good. The [unknown] is then, looking glass, the [unknown], with its pine [unknown] – a bright fire was burning as I shut the door I thought, what would I not give if these walls held my darling wife too. And is she lying in the [unknown] slept when you have laid so many years. I [unknown] Henry [unknown] up, and only imagined how glorious it would be if you were here, instead of him. It would have been too much though to ask in this world. What a little short bedstead darling. You are a dear tiny little bird merely. The next morning, Sunday was so delightful, and several little birds [torn page] surely [unknown], and I
Author	Claude Denson
Recipient	Matilda Cowan Denson
Date	1864-02-29
Type	Text
Format	TIF
Identifier	CBD02-29-64p4
Source	Cowan and Denson Family Papers
Rights	New Hanover County Public Library
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Transcribed by	Mays, Yvette