Augusta County: Mollie Houser to James Houser, February, 28,
1864
Summary:
Mollie laments the loss of James's horse and comments on the hard times the confederacy is
facing.
Febuary the 28 /64
Augusta County Va
Dear Cousin
I seat my self this pleasant evening to answer your kind letter
that I received afew days ago affording me pleisure to hear from you as I received a letter from you sometime ago & did
not answer it I hope you will pardon my for not writing Ive been so
buisy & flying around with the boys that i forgotten my duty I
received a letter from you the other day with some songs in it Im very
much pleased with them & am thankful to you for them I feel very sorry to hear of the
loss of your horse but Ive heard it said they
never was a loss but what their was a gain & I truly hope that
may be your mutual blessing as we are all doomed to disapointments & bad luck may god be in our midst to bless us in our trials
& temptation in this world of sin & misery whilst we are travling through this wilderness of wo well Cousin I have
enjoyed myself better for the last two weeks than Ive done since the
war has commenced going to Church & to singing we will have singing tomorrow night in
the neighborhood & I expect afine time but Im afraid it will turn out a bad nite as it often does but my
doom is disapointments anyway well James you wished to no if I had
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got in sulted at any thing when you were here I never get insulted at any person unless
they mistreat me in some way & Im sure you done nothing as I
no of well Jimy Pa sais to tell you when he gets those caps & powder you sent him hell have enough to kill the Devil & I hope he may get at it if he
thinks he can Kit her best old green specks to you & her love to Cousin Monroe well
Cousin I think this Confederacy is almost gone up the spout the next time you write tell me
what you think about it I dont think im wrong
& the sooner the better they have taken almost evry man
& talk of Caling on the men from seventeen to fifty
& then I suppose they will search they graveyards and sware
them to the length of them they have been dead & if old Master dont be very carefull they will steal away his Just Claims
& make him out a liar well I havent
any thing to write that will interest you they is nothing here now but hard times & worse aComing & some of the longest faces you ever saw I will Close by giving you my
love & the love of the family
I remain you affectionate Cousin
M. M. Houser
PS Please write soon give my love to Cousin
A M
