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Clarksville May 12th 1864

    This morning two months ago we parted,
my beloved Husband, took informal kiss and you were gone;
my heart was very full.  Two months have passed of your
absense, that much of the home is c[?], and as many soon begin
to look foward to our reunion.  But should I not take care
this letter will be like the last.  I intended to enclose to you the missing
Power of Attorney, and to tell you that Montague who going South
on Government himself, and had written me the following First
that you should send the Power of Attorney to some other kind
in Richmond then.  "I have not collected an order on the
Virginia Treasury, which is only paying in $5 notes which I fear
may soon be at a discount, for hires of negroes to the Lunatic asylum
amounting to about $260.  but think it best that you should
hold it until the 1st of July when they will be obliged to pay
in new currency.  I will leave this order with Mr W. G. Paine.
Dr. C has aclaim for negro hire from the C. S. Government.   This
will be paid in new currency, direct him to apply to Mr. William
Christian of the firm of Lathrop and Christian who has the money

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and will pay as soon as the Power of attorney is presented."
which you must acknowledge before a [Commishined] [underlined]
officer of the Army.  I received from Mr Hodges a few mails
back [?] $50 notes, on which there is as you know a third ac
=count.  He had never received my letter asking him to find it
and had failed about the [?].  That he still hopes to get yours
made.  So much for business.  Good old Mrs. Wooston is
dead, she was a truly prime woman.  Thompson [underlined] Brown
was killed in one of the last Battles.  news came yesterday that
[?] Tally had been mortally wounded.  His Parents started
off last night.  There was a rumor here yesterday that Drury's
Bluff has been taken.  Helen and myself are very anxious
to have from the mail, and she is all the time wishing she
was a man that she might go inst[?] homes and pick up
the news.  I expect you will be shocked, but I must tell you
that I began day before yesterday by giving Sarah a whipping
before I was dressed.  and would it up by giving Toby one
after I was undressed.  You have no idea how they deport
themselves.  Charley is the loveliest fellow you ever saw.  Things
are coming up well in the garden under a delightful rain,
which was much needed - my Daniel Lettuce is beautiful.

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Do write and
tell me how
you are fixed,
what you do,
how much you
love me, and
if you intend
to get me
any feathers?
Your devoted
Wife [underlined]