I met the messenger with the telegram just this moment, have just sent an answer, & Sam will take the telegram to Ma at Wheatly [aka Wheatley]. Do you not know Brother if my Father holds office under Lincoln after the 1st of August he can never return to Va. I cannot think you do. Ma [Jane Wood Johnston Mitchell] has no idea of returning [to Washington, D.C.] till she knows Father has been informed of this, & it is cruel to wish her to do so. Brother I shall never be able to stand this entire separation. Father must resign at once & do what he can for himself before his name suffers. [I]t is hard but Ma will suffer less to have it so, than for her home to be under such an administration, cut off forever from all she holds dear. Nonetheless, letters have been written & I cannot imagine why you all have not heard. Did you not get a telegram from Lou [Mary Louisa Mitchell Binckley], saying she was in Louisville & poor dear child, everything seems to go against her.
Ma is as well as can be under the circumstances, is very anxious of course. Dear Brother, I wish I could see your dear face once more, but God's will be done.
Your affec. Sister
Pictured at top: Liberty (Bedford) Virginia, Edward Beyer (1820-1865), circa 1855.
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