the most rabid Butternuts I ever saw; We went down one day and came back the next, and I don't think I will trouble them again with my presence. although they gave me a milk and water invitation to come again. Uncle John and I called at Joe. English's in the evening and spent an hour or two very pleasantly; I never met him to know him till last Wednesday although he is a relative; he gave me a codial invitation to make his house my home when I came to D. again, he has a family of seven children, two sons in the army one in the 13th A.C. who was in Missouri the same winter that you were, Joe was formerly a Democrat, but is an ardent supporter of the Government; he lives in one of the most [illegible] house in D. it would do you good to see the shrubbery in his yard, every foot almost is occupied; with both useful
