Gallatin Nov 20^th  1/6[?]

 

Dear Mollie

                                                                                                                        your most

welcome letter was received evening and its contence highly apreciated

 

            I was vary glad to learn of your good health but sorry to hear of you being weary and tired but I hope you are enjoying your self well at the preasant time

 

            Mollie I suppose you have plenty of apple butter now and will not go to aunt Kities to get apple butter but I think I will come to your house instead of going to see my aunt and see who has the best butter but this is foolishness and I will not spend my time writing sutch stuff and I know you will not approve of it so I will change the subject /

 

            Mollie I have just got in from duty in the out post where I have been for three days and had a vary nice time untill last evening and then it began to rain and continued to rain untill midnight and then I toock three of the men and went to scout to see that the coast was clear of rebs but we did not go far untill we found that the enemy was not far from us for one of them send a leaden message to us and it passed between me and one of my men and we replyed to it in the same way and all of our shots toock effect on his horse and kill him and we then rushed upon him and captured him after exchanging several shots with and the result was I got one of my men wounded in the face but it was only a small shot and we killed one of the enemy and captured one /

 

            Well Dear Mollie I am one of the happies of man since kind since I got your most welcome letter stating your willingness and approval of my addressing you as a suitor for your heart and hand and life our course may be both prosperous and granted that we may have no cause to regret the step we have taken but on the other hand may our future be one of endless happiness and for my part I shall not leave anything undone that will permote the hapiness of my Dearest friend.

 

            Mollie give my regards to cous Lide and to your Ma for I will have to close my letter

 

            Now Mollie please write soon and write a long letter to your ever true friend and admirer

                                                                                    Webb

 

            Good By may sweet dreams be whispered in your ears by night is my prare

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