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Mt. Pleasant Nov. 21st/62

My Dear Sister,

I think I received a good long letter from you a few days after I wrote last. I hope it will be the case again for it has been some time since I received a letter from you. Ma got a good long one from Bro. Nat last week. He wrote in better spirits than common gave a very interesting account of their houses & house keeping said he was house keeper & was expecting a good many necessaries from [N.C.?]. I sent him a pair of gloves & a woolen cap which I hope he has received before now. I have just finished a cap for Bro. Dick. I had knit him one but he hadn't had it more than six weeks before the Yankees hit him on the head & took it away from him. I suppose you have heard before now that he is at home slightly wounded but the wound is so slight that we are glad he got it so as to be able to come home. It is al- most healed now. For a moment he was stunned a little so that he lost command of his horse & when he recovered him- self his horse had gotten so far in among the enemy that he had to fall off to prevent their taking him prisoner & in that way lost his horse, overcoat & all of his blankets. He says he cut three of them terribly before he was cut. He made a very narrow escape but a merciful Providence spared him to us. Dr. Berkley has resigned & he being next in office takes the Captaincy. We can't feel glad there is so much more risk & respon- sibility. He gives a very amusing account of Stewarts raid into Penn. thinks Stewart is one of the greatest Generals at all. Sister Sue got a letter from Sister two or three weeks ago it was very short & very unsatisfactory. It was written the 30th of last April. Hal was to ^have^ been married the 5th of May. Anna was teaching in the school at Glendale & Liz & Fan were there at school. They all expected to spend the month of May at home with Hal & his wife (Miss Lomax of Conn) who were to start to India in June. That was pretty much all of the letter. But we were very glad to get it & know that they were well. Mary wrote two of three lines to say that she wanted to see us very much. Ma & I went to Bro- ther's not long ago & spent a fortnight we had a very pleasant visit. Fannie Hundley was there with her three little children. I feel so sorry for her. Charles was security for his father for more than he was worth so she has nothing. She will live at her Pa's. John Venable is better but still looks very badly. [Mr?] Venable has gotten to Charlotte. He was very badly wounded at Sharpsburg. Nat Flournoy was at College, sick like John Venable only worse bloody diarrhoea. His Mother is there under Dr. Watkins & he came up to be with her. Amanda is there nursing them. Nat was so sick that he could not see any body except the nurses. Ma has been right sick since she got back with a cold & she doesn't get over it readily. We have all had very bad colds & sore throats. Sister Sue is always busy with cloth. I am afraid she will never get through until the war is over. Fan grows & fattens she is a real noisy child & seems to be quite healthy now has one or two jaw teeth she can do a good many little tricks & tries very hard to talk. Brother Will was here this week. His folks are all well. Sister Kate just gotten home from the weavers a long piece of cloth for her boys. Henry if getting to be quite a young gentle- man with long tail coats on. Mollie looks very happy with her old man at home with his head bound up. [Emmie?] & him are both very pretty & sprightly. Maria Dupuy will be mar- ried next wednesday to Mr. Anderson of Danville. Old Mr. Redd was married last week to Mrs. Skidmore of Charlotte. They [spent?] one day here this week. I like the bride very much. Mr. Wha- rey has been visiting around here good deal with his bride. The people like her. I have only seen her at church she is very fine looking but not so pretty as Bella. There is such a spirit of marrying about here that I believe I would get married too if any body would ask me. Tell me what has become of Doc & whether he has ever married when you write. We never hear from Aunt Nancy's folks except through you. I haven't heard from Aunt Fannies either for a long time. I suppose you have heard that Cousin Jacob Morton has lost his two youngest children with diptheria & almost all of the family have had it. I am afraid now that winter has set in I will have to give up seeing you this year. I do want to see the children so much. I don't expect I would know them. Ma & all join me in love to you & all at your Pa's. Give the children ever so many kisses for their Old Auntie Pattie

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Ma wants to know what your prospects are for salt & whether you have got your [ne?] [groes?] cloth done & their shoes. Sister Sue says she wishes you lived near enough for her to see you sometimes & for her children to know yours. Give love to Millie & Pattie especially. Mr. Redd is selling his tobacco very fast now he got 26$ for the last hogshead he sent off. He hasn't fin- ished gathering his corn yet & feels right anxious about it this rainy weather. He has been send- ing off wheat too but hasn't heard from it yet. Mr. Anderson who used to be overseer for Mr. Redd is living at Brother Dick's for another year. I have so much to tell you that I get tired before I can write it all. Your Loving Sister, Pattie