Chesterfield County - Number 12
Let the old and infirm legislate
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch May 10, 1862:
To the people of Chesterfield county.
–On yesterday I resigned my seat as your Representative in the House of Delegates of Virginia. In thus disposing of the honorable position to which your partiality and confidence assigned me, I have not been unmindful of your interest — Your cause in another sphere needs all the aid you can afford. I find that my duties in the army conflict with duties in the Legislature. I do not hesitate, therefore, to last [leave] the Legislature to take undivided part in the great drama that is being enacted around us for the support of which we have pledged our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. You have men whose years and physical condition forbid them the field, and whose capacities befit them for civil life.
I am, very truly,
Your fellow-citizen,
Chas. T. Friend
There is evidence here that Mr. Friend stuck to his guns. As it turns out, Drewry’s Bluff is in Chesterfield County.
From Drewry's Bluff on the James
