April 21, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia)
A letter from Raleigh, N. C., contains the following paragraph. It needs no explanation:
Some of our soldiers who have wives and children at home, have married again among the Virginia girls. The sweet, lovely damsels of the Valley and Fredericksburg little think, as they take these gay young gentlemen for “better or for worse,” that they have left other devoted wives and prattling chaps behind. An instance of this sort “leaked out” a short time ago. A “nice young Lieutenant” of a Louisiana regiment wrote a very long endearing letter to his wife and children in Louisiana, and about the same time wrote a most affectionate, loving letter to his newly married bride, who was staying a few miles away from the camp, and accidentally, but unfortunately for him, he sent the wrong letter to each, so that his lovely bride got the letter intended for the wife of his “buzum,” and she the other. I guess that made a “fuss in the family,” if not in both families.