Milcreek Washington Co Ind

September 13^th 1861

 

Dear Brother and Sisters it with grate pleasure that I pick up you my pen this morning to rite you a few lines to let you no that wee are all well and I hope when this Comes to hand it may find you al well and doing well I can tell you that I would love to see the baby the best kind I havent got much to rite at present and I thout that while pap was a Coming I would rite alitle Well Julia I want you to Come home with pap for I am So lonsom for every body is agoing to war Albert has bin gon most 2 weeks I went to basket meeting last sunday and I saw Anderson donelson he has bin gon to Camp but he come up to meeting he sed that Albert would be up the last of this week I was at a pech Cuting the other week at Charley Caubles and after tha got done a Cuting peches they danced wee had a nice time well I dont know what to rite but if I could see you al I could tel you a heep I can tell you that I went to see Catherine Hatchs last Wednesday she has gon Crasy thay are a going to send her to inden naples next week she told me that she was a going to die she went to see / the solgers start and that was the first that was the nodestthe first that they nodest of her bing Crasey Well Sarah here look in the trunk and you will find a pare of pilerslips I nit that pare and I thout that I would make you some Slips they hant very fine but I gess they will do here is ablock like Mother is a peasing her a quilt Well Sarah here is a few Blackburies Well Julia if you dont Come home With pap I want your liknes but I want you to come home with him you all think so much of me for you rite so much to me I have riten to or three leters and you have not riten a bit to me but I gess you cant keep from reading my scribling I will Bother you al I can Well I must quit for this time yours truly I hope to remane Friends until Death

 

            Emily V Hubbard to   William Forder

            and Julia A Hubbard   Sarah Forder

 

            When this you see Remember me

            When tho a many a mile a part Wee

                        bee /

 

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Mr Family

Darlington

Montgomery Co

                        Ind

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