Monday February 8  1864

                                                                                        Northumberland

 

                        Dear Frank

                                                Another week has rouled away since I with willing hand penned the last with a willing heart and ready hand I again seat my self at the table of corrospondence This is not sabbath but monday afternoon and a dreary one at that yesterday I did not find time to write as I attend services and sabath school wich took up greater portion of the day as you may suppose as the days are short so I deffered it untill I could seise a favourable oppertunity for writing and for my being an awful good Girl this morning one has allready presented its self this afternoon I arose very early This morning went allmost imeaditly to the wash tub had my washing done in/done in good season and attended to other house hold duties allmost to numerous to mention so as a reward for my industry this morning I was exempted this afternoon I dont think it would be a bad plan to be a little smarter than usal every af monday do you

 

Dear Frank I am glad to hear by your last of your usal good health can send you the same report from home all well as usal and geting along all right we still have a large family and plenty to keep us employed with so we do not find much time for mischeif but I would sometimes like to have a little more for writing then dear Frank would not have to wait so long for awnswers to his but never mind I hope there is better times comeing when I wont have to be so very buisy and can write more then I will try to make amend/for my past delinquency I supose yesterday you awnswered mine and by tomorow I will have the pleasure of peruseing its pages your letters are allways welcome and I must say more than wellcome and when your letters does not reach here just as soon as I expect I feel so lost and lonely I hardly know what to do with my self sometimes your letters reaches here on monday evening other times they are untill Thursday night getting here

 

                                                                                                                        The remnant of old company B is in town or a great many of telm them the most have enlisted for three years and are home on a thirty days fourlough Oh Frank if my brother had become as much changed as some of them are it appears to me I would prefer our dead sorrow to that wich some of those are inflicting on the/hearts of their friends their visit Thus far have been nothing but a scene of drunkenness and debauchery it is a great pitty for them and I am fully convinced the army is no place for a refformation I am glad those few hundred dollars they offer for reenlistments holds out no enducements to you I have long been in hope of its closeing but I have allmost given up in dispair from all reports nowadays Things are not progressing quite so favourably as they are represented to be the papers state they are on the eve of comeing into penna again and that our side has had to abandon the siege of charleston I am sorry for it for I feel so embittered against that place after the awful deed that were consumated there there should not one stone be left or upon an other to mark the place it stood upon/

 

Being obliged to lay aside my pen before finishing again a few days le later I take up my pen for the purpose of finishing of if it is possible to do without being disturbed again we are haveing beautifull weather now and a great deal of sickness since writing my other there has been a great many deaths among them was Dear little Lizzie Lewis aged 22 Months to the very day she was buried last Wensday I think she was allmost to se sweet to die I never saw a more beautifull corpse The fair bud ripend on earth to bloom in heaven Johnny Stewarts little Girl has been quite sick but is getting better it is onely two three months old and has the whooping cough the same Lizzie died with/

 

Three of our soldiers were married since they came home and all to Girls of bad repute There was three of thirty three who did not act just as out rageous as they knew how Frank do you remember Elmira Croten who visited at our house the time you first seen maggie M She was married a few weeks ago to a man by the name of George Edwards a railroader by vocation There is a great many young people getting married this winter the war does not seem to frighten them much Maggie is still in very ill health I fear if maggie does not soon get some relief she will die it will be a year next month since she was married and she has not done one weeks work since that time she boards with her Mother John and her does not agree very/well John never liked her and maggie knew it I often wonder why maggie married him for my part I will never marry a man who I think will not honor and respect my dear little Mozzie or Mother as much or more than I do my self for I am well aware that I am not as dutifull as I should be but I know there is no person woh who loves her more than I do or wants more to see her happy Kate Martin and her old beau had a fall out I am rather glad of it for there was rather to much difference in sise and ages and he has the conumption Kate is very much changed from the Kate she was when you seen her last she has become so giddy and frivilous has broken of from the church and attends puplic public places of/amusement such as dance and dancing parties and so on There has been a great many dances in town this winter and at several the Methodist church has been well represented by the presence of many of its members. Dear Frank I will have to close soon although relutently the sheet is fast filling up and it is getting a little late in the day and many things are now needing my help and atention I need not say awnswer soon and take good care of Frank. By this time I hope your little friend who was injured so badly is alel able to abel to visit you again or at least I hope he is I liked your discription of him very much and wish I could say as much of my Brother Dan They all unite in sending their love and so does Agnes

 

                                    Farewell from Agnes to Frank

 

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