Letter from James B. Collins to his parents, including poem in five stanzas entitled 'The Mother's Prayer,' first lines 'Wearily silently lonely, the mother sat watching the rain,' dated Hampton Roads, January 16, 1863

Letter from James B. Collins to his parents, including poem in five stanzas entitled 'The Mother's Prayer,' first lines 'Wearily silently lonely, the mother sat watching the rain,' dated Hampton Roads, January 16, 1863