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have greatly improved. I hear of small-pox, but 

 cannot find 'it. There have been a few deaths from 

 congestive chills. I saw two cases yesterday ; these, 

 T think, will recover. 



I yesterday, called on Mrs. M 11. I fear that 



our sad and bloody times affect her unfavorably. 



Where is your husband ? 



Your affectionate friend and Pastor, J. B. 



About this time his daughters and granddaughters 

 joined him in Charleston. The following June, 

 (1864), he united in marriage his third daughter, 

 Jane, to his son-in-law, William E. Haskell. 



January 20th, '65, he wrote: 



Haskell's bank has removed its agency to Colum- 

 bia, and he has gone there ; when the Greenville 

 road is repaired he expects to remove his wife and 

 children to his brother's in Abbeville, then C. and 

 myself will be quite alone here. * * All of us 

 will trust in God. There is an overruling Provi- 

 dence. God will not forsake us. * * Let us 

 propitiate Him by faith, repentance, obedience, and 

 newness of life, and all will yet be well. We have 

 nothing new here, except harder times. Wood 

 (pine) is $110 per cord, etc. 



In February, the absent members of his family 

 and congregation urged him to leave Charleston ; 

 a son stationed on the coast, wrote, " the city will be 

 evacuated. Seek an asylum elsewhere.'' The few 

 members of the congregation compelled by circum- 

 stances to remain in Charleston, added their earnesi 

 entreaties, saying, " You cannot protect us, and it 

 would be fool hardiness for YOU, who made the 



