Franklin County: Sylvester McElheney to Harriet
McElheney, December 17, 1864
Summary:
McElheney asks his wife for a report on their farm animals and tells her that he
does not need any more money.
Saturday, December the 17th, 1864
Camp in Front of Petersburg
Dear Wife,
It is with pleser that I take the oppertunth to anser your
kind letter that I got this morning and was glad to here
that you ar all wel and thar
wos wos
won
Doller in it and som stamps
and I am wel and geting
A long
verry
wel and hope theas
feulines
wil find you all wel. You nedent send me eney more money
to I rite for it for I
hev
som of that I [unclear: fetch] a long. I hev
thre
Dollers lent
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to som of the boys that I wil get before long. I
pot in for a ferlow this
morning but I dont suppose that we wil get them for A wile yet. I am going to
pot a rin for miney and I
wont you to let me no if you
get it and I am to make you won and about that sadle it is awl rite. I
wont you giv me All the
noos. I wont you to let me
now how the cow and sheap
is duing if the Cow hes got a
caf yet and if Stribker
got that sheap at
Dads
er not. Hally I wod like if you
wod
rase the caf and you better
keep your chickens so nothing more at present but remane
tru husband.
Sylvester McElheney
to Harriet McElheney
