...h: near Strasburg, Va., October 20, 1864. Mrs. S. D. Ramseur, Milton, N. C.: dear Madam: I do not know how to write to you; how to express my deep sympathy in your grievous affliction; but the Christ ian soldier who has gone before us to that other world has asked me to do it, and I must not shrink from the performance of this duty, however painful. I am writing by the side of him whose last tho...