Richmond Apr. 7th 1863

Mrs. Martha M. Dickson,
Dear Madam,
Your letter asking me to inform
you as to the particulars of your husband’s death
came only to hand.
In reply, I would say that it is
impossible for one to say whether your husband was
“willing to die”- So many die in the Hospital
that those employed there cannot remember how
each one passes from this world. For your comfort
however, I will say that a Chaplain visited the Hos-
pital regularly; I have no doubt that your husband
during his sickness availed himself of his pious
conversation, and I trust for your sake as well as his
own, that he is now in that better land, and my
prayer is, that when you are called you may be prepared
to meet him, where parting shall be no more. Yours Respectfully,
Ro. E. Richardson