Hugh Craig was the older brother of Jennie Craig Warner, who was the grandmother of the poet Marianne Moore> These letters are preserved as part of Marianne Moore’s family papers. 
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Locust Hill, April 25th 1861
Dear Sister:
I have a good many letters to write. And a good deal of work to attend between this and the 8th of May. For these reasons I must write you but a short letter. I arrived home yesterday evening. And was right glad to get home, so that I might be free to some extent from the excitement. George was to leave this morning for York. He has accepted the post of Pay-master in Col. Stumbaugh’s Regiment. Mary of course felt sad at George’s departure, but she bore up very well. Mother is a good deal troubled about the War. She says she would like to get away from Mason’s & Dixon’s line as far as she could. She says that she would not like to go either to Chambersburg or Gettysburg. She thinks the only safe place would be in Canada. The Marylanders around us are all Union men so far as I know. The Clearspring people were very much rejoiced that so many troops came to Chambersburg, they feel safer now. They are strong for the Union in Clearspring. Dr. Firey says he will spend all he has to defend the Union. I can’t pay you more than the interest on that note this spring. It might be that after awhile I might pay you some. I paid that note off, that Uncle held against you, and destroyed it. You may bring that note of mine along with you over, or mark the interest on it paid for one year and I will make all right when you come over. The troubles in our country will make quite a change in that contemplated trip in May. We will probably only go to Niagara. Thomas X. Orr is to be grooms-man. Tell Mr. Warner we expect him to officiate on the morning of the 8th of May. I suppose it is hardly necessary that I should write to Mr. W. about it. It was the understanding when Mr. W. was over here that he was to officiate on that occasion if Mr. Dinsmore was not yet ordained. Tell him I am very much engaged, & that I hope he will excuse me for not writing. Jennie I want you to go along with Mr. W. to the wedding. Mr. Orr’s said that you should come there the evening before. The ceremony is to take place at 9 ½ o’clock. Mr. Orr’s say they can entertain six strangers. Watson intends going the evening before. Martha said she would like to know a little before hand how many of my friends would be with them one night. I want you to write to me immediately whether you will go to James Orr’s the evening before. Our plan here is for you to go to the wedding, and then come up with Watson in the cars to Chambersburg & he will bring you the remainder of the road in the buggy. Jennie I would like very much & Mother would too, that you would be here as soon as you can after I leave. If you would come with Watson from the wedding, Mother would only be alone one night. If it is had suited you I would like if you could have been present a few days before I left—but I will not ask you to do this. I expect there will be about thirty five or forty at the wedding.
From your affectionate brother
Hugh
Citation: Hugh Craig, autograph letter signed to Jennie Craig Warner. Locust Hill, Penn, 25 April 1861. Moore VI:04:17