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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 or 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 gave 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 are fixing a box to
send 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 Ma has been so unwell that I hardly ever
leave her all day now. She has been more unwell than
[Marginalia]
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[?] just have heard that Cousin Margaret had a little girl. Jacob Morton is at home he looks badly but is well again.
Nat & Morton are not
together. Cousin Polly
was here last week
her Nat is hired to
two [Farmville?] gentle
-men who are stationed
at Norfolk. He writes
to her very often. He
saw all of the fight
between the Virginia
& the blockaders Cum
berland & Congress.
I have a heap to tell
you that I cant write.
Your own loving Sister
Pattie
Ma & Sister Sue & all
join me in love to
you & all at your Pa's.
I want to see the
children so much.
Frankie is called
like Charley
Kiss the little darling
for me. Ma says
she wishes Mr. Hines
would go down
& preach for the boys
some times.
The troops write that
they are mightly [hungry?]
& we cant send boxes
now there is such
a number of troops
there. Capt Thoruton
hadnt been able to
change his clothes
for three weeks but
Bro. D wrote that it
hadnt been so long since
he had changed his
but he didnt know how
long it would be as it is [bad?] [?] [there?] [?]
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