febuary the [?] 1862

 

my Dear

brother and Sister i now take my pen in hand to write afew lines to you hoping when they come to hand they will find you all well as it leaves us all prety well at presant Mr Hubbards folks are all well but Emily and she is geting better well it seams like lonsom times in this neighborhood for it seams like every is gone to war but afew / that are to big acoards to gofor fear of getting a pocket full as Albert calls them we didnot get any letter from the boys this weak so we dont know whare they are we cant hear any thing of them well i would like to be out ther and help you make Shugar and molasses and have soe fun but i cant be out there but ithink iwill be out there some of these times if iwas old anuf ishould go to war but iam not old anuf to go to war So iwill have to stay at / home we have seven hundred thousand men in the field now and more agoing the time they are killing the rebbels all the time they had abattle last weeke in kentuckey after fiting four dys they captured the forte they took old buckner and johnson with fifteen others thousand others so they got agood hall that time iguess that you have heard that Mary Jane bressie is married to Martin fults well iwould like to see them turkeys and chickens of Sarah iguess they are got / to be old hens by this time but old hens will do as well as chickens we are going to tend george hubbards shugar camp this year we are going to try to make afew molasses this year our school was out aweek ago last Saturday now then comes hard work and that goes hard with me well icant think of any thing to write about so imust come to a close no more at presant yours truly Robert H Forder

 

to W William Forder and

Sarah Forder

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