RADFORD – Wharton Letter Tuesdays has a new look.
“Join us each Tuesday as we continue to highlight the Wharton letters, but instead learn what Gabe and Nannie were doing and thinking on this day in the 1860s,” Glencoe Mansion announced on its social media pages.
Where was Gen. Wharton on July 18, 1864? He was in Berryville, Va. missing his family. He ends his letter from July 17 by asking Nannie to kiss William “a thousand times for me.” And in his July 19 letter he begins with “How happy I should be if instead of being here ¬ surrounded by lazy sleeping soldiers, I could be in your sweet room kissing you and playing with the little fellow.”
These sentiments show how much his family was at the forefront of his mind late in the War.
To read more of Gabe’s sentiments for his family, visit the Glencoe Gift Shop to get your own copy of “The Whartons’ War.” The museum is open 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday.
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