Piqua Miami County Ohio

                                                                                    Aprill 18^th 1864

 

                                    At home

                                                                                                Dear Webb

                                                                                                            I received your

kind and no less interesting letter after some delay and now I shall endeavor to reply to the same. I was visiting in town last week and received your letter and should have answered it on saturday evening it was my intention to do so but Miss Tillie Clarks brother was home from the army and there was some company going out from town to spend the eveing and they came and insisted so that I concluded I would go I guess Cousin Lidie did not like it very well for I promised to stay with her

 

            Well Webb I suppose you now residing in your Southern home and enjoying all the comforts and luxuries of a soldier life whilst I am enduring all the hardships of a farmer’s daughter I am getting rather religious since you was here last I have been to church six times since your departure so much for my But / verily I say unto you! my religion has not made me any better I am as great a sinner as ever

 

            Webb I heard last night that you insulted some of the Democrat boys out at Mr Pattersons the evening of the party I told them I thought it was a mistake

 

            I received a letter from Chicago on thursday last from a young gentleman that I never saw or heard of he wrote that he had friends in Piqua who wrote to him about me and wished him to get up a correspondence with me and as they recommended me so highly he thought he would comply with their wish he is to send his photograph as soon as I answer his letter but under the arrangements I dont think I he will have the pleasure of sending it I think I shall find out who his Piqua friends are

 

            Well our boys started to California last week and we miss them very much but I suppose we will lose the rest of our boys the second of may they leave us to go to the field of battle it is the Volunteer Malitia I Abraham president of the United States has ordered them out so mote it be /

 

            Webb this is the fourth letter I have written this after noon and my fingers cramp so I can scarcely write and I must write an other as soon as I finish this. I have you attended only two parties since you was here our winter’s amusement is a bout drawing to a close I understand there is to be several parties next week for the Soldiers that are to be

 

            The sabbath after you left I was in at church and some dident like the idea of the bride making her appearance in a black silk dress and the bonnet she had wore all winter I told them it suited me but I was not aware that I was a bride but enough of such nonsense

 

            Wishing you well and hoping to hear from you soon I close my dry letter perhaps the next will be more interesting

 

            Give my best wishes to Mr Sheets

 

            Miss Tillie sends her love to you she is sick at present time

                                                                                                            Good bye Webb

Webb please write often                                                                                 Yours Mollie

for I am ever happy to hear from you /

They say that absence conquers love

But Oh believe it not

Ive tried alas its powers to prove

But thou art not forgot

                                                Mollie

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