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

 cannot find it. There have been a few deaths from 

 congestive chills. I saw two cases 3^esterday ; these, 

 I think, will recover. >k :;==!. * 



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, .[. 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 PI Haskell. 



January 20tli, '(So, he wrote: 



Haskell's bank has removed its agency to (■olum- 

 bia, and he has gone there ; when the Greenville 

 road is reimired he expects to remove liis wife and 

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

 mvself 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 faitli, repentance, obedience, and 

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

 nothing new here, except liarder times, Wood 

 (pine) is |110 per cord, etc. 



In February, tlie absent members of liis 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 foolhardiness foi- vou, who made the 



