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Home Saturday Night Aug 20^th/6[?]

 

                                                                                                Dearest Brother

I have received two letters from you since writing, the first, you were on the train, and the other today you were at Dalton Ga, and you are now perhaps engaged in the deadly conflict. if so, may the God of battles protect you and be your guard and shield in the hour of danger.

 

Well there is considerable of excitement here they are enlisting very rapidly. Joe Cory come home from the 16^th Battery to recruit /

last Thursday and went

to Columbus today with

ten from here I do

not know how many from other places. The ones from here are John McGillon, Ell Howe, Luke Cyster, Charlie Polly, Hale & Bacon—refugees—Snider—Helen Polly’s beau—I do not know the rest. They got four hundred dollars bounty. John Johnson has paid a substitute. he said he would give all he was worth before he would go. The democrats have nominated McClellan, and Pendleton but I presume you will hear all about the convention before this reaches. Mollie Brower & Newt Varner were married last Thursday he went to the convention and left her at home. do you remember that party he was at /

                                                                                    Thare is a great deal

                                                                                    of sickness here. Aunt

                                                                                    Kitty Scorse was buried

                                                                                    last Monday. Some Conklin

Child died today and Sallie McNeal is not expected to live but a few hours and poor dear Ru is only getting weaker all of the time. she took a heavy chill last night at nine it lasted until eleven and then had high fever until morning she is a little better this evening. Will just carries her like a baby whereever she wants to go. she sits up just long enough to eat The rest of our folks are all well I did not get the school here the teachers are Mr Harde—butternut—Miss Lemmon, Miss Newson, Miss Sallie Beakley, and Miss Rena Lewis /

 

Mr Ed Beakley has come out to be a butternut he denounces Lincoln, all he has ever done and the whole republican party [paper fold]

 

I have not got a school yet I am trying to get one on the Springfield line so that I can come home on the bus evry night Ell & I were at Springfield last Sabbath we took dinner at the Knaub House and had a real good dinner. there was basket making at [?]sville and we went out in the morning and did not like it so we went on to Springfield. Will Stafford and his girl—Nellie Lowman—were with us. I am going over to Troy next Saturday and I will get those Vinings if they are there

 

[margins]        The flying Irishman whipped his wife splendid pap he is; very much obliged for the caps they are real warm; Mollie sends her love Harrie a kiss; Will and I took Harrie to Troy to get photos and he says the man could not get it fixed; Follow the Real railroad; O[?] came home last night

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