Johnstown Apil 20^th 1864

                                                                                Wendesday Evening

Sergt. F. C. Miller

 

My Friend Frank.

                                                            Your letter, which I should have received some ten days ago, only reached me on Saturday last. I do not know the cause of the delay.

 

            I am enjoying very good health—for me. Sis—or Anna—is telling me to ask you quite a number of questions, but I hardly think they would be pertinent, so I will defer them for the present.

 

            They are talking all around me, and somehow my ideas will intermingle with theirs, so if I make mistakes, you will please look over them./

 

            I do not wonder that the loss of your comrade caused you to feel sad. You would naturally be led to think of his future state of existence, and likewise of your own future. I fear that you did not accede to the proposal which I made in my last letter, as you would certainly have mentioned the matter if you had.       

 

            I am sorry, but shall leave the matter with your own conscience and better judgement.

 

            Anna is much obliged to you for the information which you sent concerning your former friends and associates while in Johnstown.

 

            I saw Mr Joseph Moore pass here several times last week. I understand he is getting out papers for a divorce from his wife, and then intends going to the army. He looks well and hearty. Mrs Moore got into the house a week before he returned, and tried to burn the house/down by sitting a lighted lamp in a closet under the stairs, and piling papers and rags around it. She would most likely have accomplished her object, but the next door neighbors smelt the fire in the night, and bursting open the door, succeeded in putting it out. She is a wretched woman.

 

            What are the signs of the times in your city at present?

 

I do not think “Annie S. Ebbert” has answered the “Corporal’s” letter yet. I am sorry now that I wrote the first one, for I do not like to have him disappointed. I have been tempted to carry it on my self under her name, if she don’t soon do something, but don’t know whether I will or not. I liked the tone of his letter. Father, Mother and Anna are in usual health and send kind regards.

 

Accept the best wishes of your friend

 

Sergt. F. C. Miller                                           Mollie E. Bowen

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