especially after receiving such a letter, but it is getting late and I am very tired, so good night.
  Thursday Evening 26th  I fear you will think I am neglecting you, as I write a little now and then, but when I am not writing, you are in my thought almost constantly; I am quite well this evening, I wonder how you are?  Mr. R. told me today that there was a dispatch saying that Gen Davidson's command is at Pilot Knob, O! if I had the money I feel like I could fly to you, it may be the last chance I will ever have of seeing you, if I know it, I would go to you at all hazzards; I received a letter from Aunt Liss this evening, I was very glad to hear from her she would like to have me come to visit her, as Mary is married she feels very lonely, she & Genny Ellisons were married the same day, Aunt says that Molly Hedges folks are all bitter secessionists; I forgot to write you anything about the weather in my last; last Thursday the 19th we had the heaviest fall of snow we have had this winter, the wind blew very hard and it drifted so that it is hard to tell the exact depth, Mr. R said he thought about 4 or 5 inches, the next day it turned very warm, and froze
