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- GLC#
- GLC03523.49.13-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- September 27-28, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Phelps, Diton, fl. 1861-1864
- Title
- to sister
- Place Written
- Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20.1 cm, Width: 25.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes to his sister from Culpepper Station. Talks about the boys making fun of a man named Greenleaf who recently arrived in camp. Comments that he likes Greenleaf and finds him an "honest fellow." Tells his sister that she is foolish for thinking of marrying at such a young age. Writes, "Money is not what we should look at in selecting a partner for life. You are foolish girl for thinking of marrying or being engaged so young you had not right to think of it for seven or eight years. You have not fairly got your cloaks off yet."
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