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William Stringfield to his future wife Maria Melvina Love, July 8, 1865, page 4
Item 1 - William Stringfield to his future wife Maria Melvina Love, July 8, 1865, page 1
William Stringfield to his future wife Maria Melvina Love, July 8, 1865, page 1
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Item 2 - William Stringfield to his future wife Maria Melvina Love, July 8, 1865, page 2
William Stringfield to his future wife Maria Melvina Love, July 8, 1865, page 2
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Item 3 - William Stringfield to his future wife Maria Melvina Love, July 8, 1865, page 3
William Stringfield to his future wife Maria Melvina Love, July 8, 1865, page 3
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William Stringfield to his future wife Maria Melvina Love, July 8, 1865, page 4
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assurances as these I’ll be happy. I can face the stern realities of life cheerfully with bright anticipations of future bliss. I do not close my eyes to the fact that the future is clouded with many dark shadows - not shadows altogether, either, but real trouble to those of us who so warmly espoused the cause of the South in the late war. My determination is to hope and pray for strength and true manhood to overcome all trial and difficulties. I am satisfied that married life, between kindred spirits, will not be conducive of more trouble than the corresponding strength and spirit of endurance and forbearance given to the partners by a kind & ever ruling Providence. If dark shadows do close around - love, confidence and honest toil will dispel them and usher in “joy unspeakable” and happiness unalloyed. Those my dearest Lady are some of the sentiments of my heart, not very elegantly expressed - but honestly so I trust. Think of them and of me with as much leniency and forbearance as possible. I have much more to say if you will permit me to write again. I hope you will. I hope to be allowed to visit you soon and often, but wish to prevent as far as possible your becoming an object of “village gossip”. With renewed assurances of love & esteem I am truly yours William. W. Stringfield
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In a letter to his future wife, Maria Melvina Love on July 8, 1865, William Williams Stringfield writes as a suitor asking for Love's hand in marriage. In an attempt to win her affections, Stringfield mentions his high standing reputation with the families of Western North Carolina and East Tennessee. He reminds Love of their first encounter, four years previously, just before the onset of the Civil War in which Stringfield was enlisted. Stringfield states that the thought of his home, his family, and Ms. Love convinced him to answer the call to arms, and that these thoughts are what carried him through the hardships endured in the Confederate Army. Stringfield uses the remainder of the letter to assure Love that he is ready for the life of a married man and implores Love to write him again.
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