Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-08-17
KNOXVILLE May the 29th 1861

KNOXVILLE May the 29ih 1861.
Dear Husband-I received your welcome
letter Last evening, aud was sorry to hear
that you was Sick and | being so far from
you. but thank god that you feel better now,
you must be very carefule not To expose
yourself TO Much to any danger but what you
cannot possibly help. You have ventured
your life And -uned yourself and me unto
Misery Hardship and Trouble of Mind, for to
please some of the UniOnville Big Bugs, that
are to home with their famelies and That
would not care if you never did return, But
| hope you will not be led awaw any More
by ANY of their falce fattery. If you live
until the q of July And L trust in god you
will, Let nothing under HeaVin prevail on
you to stay from home any longer, L have
Trouble Of body i mind agood deal since L
frs come TO UniOnyilIe, But it was nothing
when Compared To my trouble Hardship i
LOanliniss now, But | trus in god You will
live to return home Again and you perhaps
will be q wiser and a better Husband, 1t have
Ny heart broke 10 see My Neighbours About
their business aud you Situated as you are
on Their account as well as on your own
Edward Dear ! am very impatient to get
your Likness the first chance you will have
TO get it taken But do not go alone to the
City by no mains. / am So Much afraid of
you, the traitors in and about Washington is
so Numerous, L told you how you would
Dress when you would have Your hkness
taken Do not forget it, think it May be
sent free As you are a soldier but 1 cannot
tell. Send it any way Next Week if you can
possibly, it will come suppose By express L
hope it will look More like you than What
georges lOOkd like him. he looked like
Clown
Dear Husband / am 10 work in the shop
for the last Fortnight in Mrs Cooneys place,
but there is Not Much doing their now. do
not work More than Five hours any day. And
we do not know how long They are going to
run but it cannot be long until What stuff
they have will be all worked up. There is
Not Many to work there Now there IS only
One turner that is Martin he turns in Your
Place he come yesterday, they turned Pat
Kinady Up for him. Bin is left last tusday
Hynes does His work Now, Divine aud his
family are LETT also You wish me to let You
know where More has gone he Left this vii
lage two weeks ago they went to New Brit
tain do not Know what become of him since
Neither does it much Matter what would Come
OF a man that do act so Main as it is said he
do Dear Edward | wish to know in your
next letter if you Had any fits since You left
home, Your good Brother georges Wife went
TO Hartford yesterday to buy her A new suit
OF Clothes he left her plenty Money when he
left Home besides 10 dollars that futile owed
him And She got dollars from Butler. She
parrades the Streets here Herself And her
Sisters onlay as if she was worth thousands
They does her washing cuts her wood fetcbes
the water for her She have Not one turn to
do. Rockers wife and her went To Hartford,
Dear Husband don't You tell George one
Word of this. | should like to know if Your
Company viii Not get Any pay until the
4th of July But when ever you get Your pay
be Very Carefale To put it where it will Not
be stole from You, the Times look bad Now.
The Old Man got a deed last Week of his
place he bought him pig last week got
One Hundred of bran the week before last
for Our pig, ne is irving good but he have
no bed, Must Close, God save il bless you
from your wife MARIA CALENDER
Burn this letter write Immediately send
the hkness.