To Mary Milroy From Valerius Armitage July 12 1863

              Bowling Green Ky. July 12th 1863 
 
                                      Sunday 
 
 
 
My Dear Sister, 
 
 
 
	I received your ample letter on the  
10th inst. It relieved my mind of the weight of  
anxiety. I am a constant reader of the Cin. Gazette  
as well as other papers. The Gazette I buy every day,  
I saw the NY Heralds correspondents article as  
well as the editors brutal remarks. Fit to come from  
such a paper, whose editor and proprietor Bennet has  
made his fortune by blackening the characters of his 
superior and by every base means his satanic brain  
could conceive. Two cowardly himself to resent  
many public floggings he has received from  
cowhides and canes, or the terrible scathing he got from  
Roger A Pryor on the floor of Congress. In no  
other country would such scandalous  
paper be tolerated, and there are too many such in  
this country. I also saw the extracts from  
Richmond papers concerning you, particularly  
the Richmond Sentinel’s mild suggestion that you  
and Ella should be sent to the penitentiary for  
your alleged doings at Winchester. I thank God  
my dear sister that you, Ella nor Robert fall into  
their hands. They would have heaped every indignity  
upon you, as for their charges against you I