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Mt. Pleasant Aug. 27th 1862

My own Dear Brother,

    It has been sometime since I have
written a letter to anybody & I feel as if I ought to
write to you as you are generally so good about writing.
Sister Sue received your letter a few days after it was written
& we were all very much surprised to find that you had
received the box so soon.  We might have sent you some other
kinds of vegetables if we had know how soon it would have
reached you but were afraid tomatoes & such things would
spoil.  Sister Maria made the Catsup & gave it to Brother Dick
but he couldn't carry a box & Ma took it & sent to you.  Brother
Dick staid about a fortnight.  He looked right thin & coughed
right badly when he came up.  But said he fattened nearly
a pound a day & was afraid to weigh before he went away.
He got several new recruits from amomg the prisoners while
here for the troop.  Hal Edmunds was one.  Henry [Ewin?], Frank
Womack etc.  Hal & one or two others went down with him horse
back.  His horse had given out so that he had to get a new one.
He & Mollie & I went to Brother's & staid two or three days &
Lou Edmunds came with us home & staid here ten or twelve
days.  John Venable has been sick at Brothers ever since the
battles before Richmond with some thing like dysentery.  He
looks very thin & seems to grow worse instead of better, but is
so cheerful & uncomplaining that we would hardly think him
sick.  We feel very uneasy about him.  He has altered so that
very few people know him.  He looks like Charley Daniel used to.
Lou & I went to see Sister Kate & found Cousin Martha Scott
& Cousin Paulina Daniel there.  Cousin P. said Abe was
getting about & she expected would soon be back to his com
pany again.  I hope it will be your time to come home then
but I hope you wont have to be sick to get home.  Cousin
Paulina said they were expecting to have John at home soon
he hasn't been home at all & has been in service 15 months.
Sister Maria came by on her way from Charlotte last saturday & took
Lou home.  She had been to see Charles Hundley who is very ill with
fever.  He has been sick some time & is delirious all the time.  Bob Shepard
son died last Saturday with the same kind of fever.  We haven't
had much sickness in the neighborhood but there has been a great
deal through the country.  Ma has been quite well this summer
& so has the whole of Mr. Redd's family with the exception of mea
sles & the baby has had a very severe spell but she is well now
& begins to jabber & is mighty sweet & ugly.  Cousin Will Morton
lost one of his children last week with croup.  Little Sit. he
was sick only a short time we didn't hear of it until we heard
that he was dead.  Col. Cardwell died too last week he had been
sick a long time.  We heard that Joe Daniel had joined the
Charlotte troop but don't know whether he has started or not.
Poor fellow he hates so badly to leave his beautiful young wife.
Presbytery begins at Charlotte Co. Ho. tomorrow & Miss Powell & I
are thinking of going saturday & sunday.  We will go to Brother
Will's & go from there.  Nannie & the children were well when we
heard from them but it hasn't been very lately.
We have had some very severe rains lately & Mr. Redd's tobac
co has been right much injured but his corn crop is excellent.
He sent off a turn of wheat to Farmville yesterday to get him
some new flour.  We have very little fruit except apples.
Peaches are vey scarce in the neighborhood & the water melon
vines have nearly all been killed by the drought.
Cousin Margaret Venable got a letter last week from Mrs. Cumpston
telling of Cousin Sue Watkins (Venable's) death she died two months
ago & they have just received the letter.  Her little babe died too.
Mr. Cumpston had written too but they haven't received his letter.
Horace Booker was here yesterday John was at the battle [of?]
Cedar Run & took Gen Prince all by himself but another
soldier got all the credit for it all of John's company says
he deserves it & ought to have it, that the other boy had nothing
to do with taking him.  We always love so much to get let
ters from you.  Ma, Sister Sue & all join me in love to
you & all the Cousins.

                Your Ever Aff Sister,
                    Pattie