Black Oak Pt. Iowa Sept 27^th 1863

 

My Dear Husband

                                                            It has been two weeks since I have had a letter from you. I expect that I will get two tomorrow, I get two at once very often. Nearly every body is fixing to make molasses. I am very glad that we have not got any to make. Harv has got 164 shocks of corn cut up. he has bought two more calves. he paid $8.00 for them. they are both heifers. Pa and Jim Harden have gone into the hog buisness. they have got sixty five the are going to have about 90 or 100. Pap is keeping 100 sheep for Joshua Molesworth. he has swore vengeance against our mules. he says that / he will kill one or break a leg for them if Harv lets them run out. I guess that he has forgotten about his mule sucking our mares all summer until Harv put them up. he never would keep it up until it went to sucking his own mares. then he put a muzzle on it and kept it up.

 

                                                            I want to to whisper something about that worthy individual (Dad). he says that if Stone is elected Governer of Iowa, he will leave the state he is not going to live under an abolition Governer any longer Now if you want to do this country a great service just labor day and night for Stone and get as many men as posible in the Reg to vote for him. I wish that I could vote for him if for / no other reason than the one above mentioned.

 

                                                            Mead is getting pretty stout again. Olly is a good deal better but I have been about laid up for a week with a raised breast. it has not broke yet but it is very painful and I expect that it will break before long Sarah Long is at Paps yet. she is going to move to herself as soon as they can put up a house for her and go after her things. Pat got those house logs from Harv and is going to put them up in the north east corner of his field for her to live in this winter Frank Smedley has got moved into his new house. Mother is knitting a pair of socks apiece for Charley and Frank to send by Col Dungan. I couldend have / knit any to send to Dave and you if I had had the yarn for Olly is sick nearly all the time and I just do what I am obliged to do and let the rest go I think however from what you said when you was at home that you are not needing any kind of clothes

 

I have spun and colored a little yarn for Olly stockings I will send you a little piece of it and you can see how good I can spin and color. Harv is talking about buying Paps old flock of sheep if he can get them for $3.00 per head. there is twenty four or five of them. what do you think about it. he dond like to buy sheep at $3.00 per head because you told him not to pay more than $2.50 for them. I am about out of paper and I expect that you would like for me to get larger sheets next time but when I write every week it is as much as I can do to fill a small sheet. From your loving wife

                                                                                                                        L A Reed

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