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Mt Pleasant April 14th 1862
My Dear Sister
We received a letter from Brother Nat
last Friday & I had set today to answer it & to write to you
too & yesterday I received a nice good letter from you so I
will write to you & tell you about him & write to him
& tell him about you. He writes in very good spirits
says he is very well fixed lacks nothing but you
& the children. He was to guard that night with Doc
but their standing guard is very light nothing to Broth
er Dick's duties. He only wrote a short letter to let us
know where he was & how he was fixed & I expect he
has written it all to you. I went Saturday to see Mollie
& hear from Brother Dick as we heard there had been
some skirmishing on the Peninsular. She got a letter
last thursday but it had been on the way a week. He
wrote very cheerfully said there had been no firing of guns
up to the time that he wrote but that our picketts
had been driven in two o r three times. He writes real
love letters to Mollie, he has written to know where Bro
Nat is so that he may go to see him when he gets time.
Mollie looked very cheerful & well & the children are
very well, Minnie is not so pretty as she was, but is still
very pretty she runs about & talks a few words. Emurie
has got to be prettier than Minnie now. I carried her some
flowers & as soon as I geve them to her she said, "I will send
Papa some flowers." She talks a great deal & mighty sweet.
Maria & I went to our society. We a re fixing a box to
sent to the hospital at Hugenot Springs. Maria has
started up a collection for the gun boat Richmond. I
got up one for Chaplain & have raised $175 & have been
out very little Mas has been so unwell that I hardly ever
leave her all day now. She has been more unwell than
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