Letters from Captain Michael Marion to his wife, Mrs. Magdalene Marion.
October 31, 1865
My Beloved Darling,
I am writing this letter to you from my new office in the command post at Fort Mc Dowell here in the Arizona Territory. I know it has been weeks since I wrote last but it is in no way because you have slipped my mind. In fact, the thought of you and the children is all that sustains me in times of doubt and great hardship out here. I keep your beautiful picture ever close in my wallet, which I sleep with in my shirt pocket so it can be right near my heart. The picture of you and our children is right beside it, and I go to sleep dreaming of when this war will be over and when I return to you once and forever.
I daydream constantly of our beautiful home, and I am sure that it has
