This graphic map illustrates how constantly Nannie followed me after marriage throughout my military service.
MAP
SHOWING
POST AND STATION ASSIGNMENTS
OF
ANSON MILLS, U.S.A.
SCALE OF MILES
(see chart above)
NOTES:—
ALONE, AT POST OR STATION—△
ACCOMPANIED, AT POST OR STATION, BY MRS. MILLS—◯
POSTS OR STATIONS OCCUPIED ON SECOND ASSIGNMENT ◬ OR ☉
NUMBER OF STATIONS OCCUPIED DURING 25 YEARS AFTER MARRIAGE
(1868 TO 1893) 26; DISTANCE TRAVELED (CHANGE OF STATION ONLY)
DURING SAME PERIOD, 25,808 MILES.
Little Anson at Seventeen Months.
Little Anson at Twelve Years.
Carefully preserved among his mother's papers is a letter from our son to me, and my reply to him. Shortly before she died, Nannie brought these to my attention, saying she thought them of sufficient worth to merit publication, considering that the boy was but fifteen when he wrote, but three weeks before he died. I append the two letters here: