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Clarksville May 12th 1864<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This morning two months ago we parted,<br />my beloved Husband, took informal kiss and you were gone;<br />my heart was very full.&nbsp;&nbsp;Two months have passed of your<br />absense, that much of the home is c[?], and as many soon begin<br />to look foward to our reunion.&nbsp;&nbsp;But should I not take care<br />this letter will be like the last.&nbsp;&nbsp;I intended to enclose to you the missing<br />Power of Attorney, and to tell you that Montague who going South<br />on Government himself, and had written me the following First<br />that you should send the Power of Attorney to some other kind<br />in Richmond then.&nbsp;&nbsp;"I have not collected an order on the<br />Virginia Treasury, which is only paying in $5 notes which I fear<br />may soon be at a discount, for hires of negroes to the Lunatic asylum<br />amounting to about $260.&nbsp;&nbsp;but think it best that you should<br />hold it until the 1st of July when they will be obliged to pay<br />in new currency.&nbsp;&nbsp;I will leave this order with Mr W. G. Paine.<br />Dr. C has aclaim for negro hire from the C. S. Government.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This<br />will be paid in new currency, direct him to apply to Mr. William<br />Christian of the firm of Lathrop and Christian who has the money<br /><br />[P.2]<br />and will pay as soon as the Power of attorney is presented."<br />which you must acknowledge before a [Commishined] [underlined]<br />officer of the Army.&nbsp;&nbsp;I received from Mr Hodges a few mails<br />back [?] $50 notes, on which there is as you know a third ac<br />=count.&nbsp;&nbsp;He had never received my letter asking him to find it<br />and had failed about the [?].&nbsp;&nbsp;That he still hopes to get yours<br />made.&nbsp;&nbsp;So much for business.&nbsp;&nbsp;Good old Mrs. Wooston is<br />dead, she was a truly prime woman.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thompson [underlined] Brown<br />was killed in one of the last Battles.&nbsp;&nbsp;news came yesterday that<br />[?] Tally had been mortally wounded.&nbsp;&nbsp;His Parents started<br />off last night.&nbsp;&nbsp;There was a rumor here yesterday that Drury's<br />Bluff has been taken.&nbsp;&nbsp;Helen and myself are very anxious<br />to have from the mail, and she is all the time wishing she<br />was a man that she might go inst[?] homes and pick up<br />the news.&nbsp;&nbsp;I expect you will be shocked, but I must tell you<br />that I began day before yesterday by giving Sarah a whipping<br />before I was dressed.&nbsp;&nbsp;and would it up by giving Toby one<br />after I was undressed.&nbsp;&nbsp;You have no idea how they deport<br />themselves.&nbsp;&nbsp;Charley is the loveliest fellow you ever saw.&nbsp;&nbsp;Things<br />are coming up well in the garden under a delightful rain,<br />which was much needed - my Daniel Lettuce is beautiful.<br /><br />[P.1- Sideways, in Top Margin]<br />Do write and<br />tell me how<br />you are fixed,<br />what you do,<br />how much you<br />love me, and<br />if you intend<br />to get me<br />any feathers?<br />Your devoted<br />Wife [underlined]