185. W.T. Reid.
Civil War Letter.

This is one of two letters written to Reid's cousin, the daughter of Mary and John Morton Daggett. At the time of this correspondence, Reid is serving as an escort to a Union General and has the leisure to write and to "cut a bullet out of a tree yesterday that was shot at me last spring on the bank of the Rhapahanock it was so close to the rebels at that time that I could not get it without being shot but I got it yesterday. I have now three of them." Carrying on in this light-hearted fashion, Cousin Will jokes: "I must acknowledge that I was surprised as well as pleased to hear of Cous. Dave's conversion, although I am the same profligate as ever yet I like to hear of others shun the path of sin."

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