.NjM5.NDY5OA

�Arabine not to work to hard in the mill [?] to me that she was to work in the new mill but did not write where she landed you wrote to me not wory about home I cannot help it when we lay days without half supper enough I cannot help thinking of you at home I wish you could look in upon us about twenty four hours so you could judge for your self but enough of that at present I went down [?] last night to get some medicine for Capt Emerson the city was over run with soldiers coming from all directions north it is estemted that there is 50.000 troops under the vicinity of Washington that can be raised in two hours I have got sick and tired of the sound of war but mind stand [inserted] a while longer I hope if I live to get home I shall never here the sound of war again while I live it is groing late