Undated – November 1864
Dear Charlotte
I havent writen quite all I want to so I will write some on this. It is some I tore out of an old account book I got in one of the stores in Atlanta. You say you can go to your folkses this winter. I am verry glad you have that privilage. I wonderd a great meney times where you would go and what would become of you and the little ones. If they will let you stay there it will be a fine thing. We will never troubel them eney more after I get home. I hope but hope some day to pay and more than pay them for what they are doing for you in this time of troubel. I dident like the the plan of your going to Greens. I would reather not have eneything to do with them. They are people I dont think but verry little of. After you had moved they wouldent ben so clever. I think he is a verry dishonest man. I havent forgot how he sawed and measured lumber for father yet. I am glad you are not obliged to go there to live. I wish you had a lot of wood choped. It is to hard for you to look up wood. It must be cold in that old house. I wish you had the money. I send 124 dollars in all. If you got it in time you had better buy some apples to dry and a coupple barls of grafted fruit so the children can have something this long winter. I know Matie likes them and if the baby is big enough to talk he must be big enough to eat apples. Buy some and I will pay for them some way bim bye without taking eney of my monthly pay. Good buy.
I have got to sleep alone to knight. It rains now. Our poor boys out in the storm without shelters but that is the soldiers life. My nose has just commenst bleeding. I have got some on the paper so you can see some of my blood once more. Ceep your milk for the children. You neadent send me eney. It must be thicker than that we get to the sutlers or you couldent send it in newspaper. I dont want it. I would reather the children would have it when you cant get milk dissolve it in water.