No 36  Rossville Illinois.  Sunday Eve. Aug 14th 1864  My Dear Husband,  Still I date my letters at "Rossville" and I am sure I can't tell when I will change my address.  I would go at any time now if I had the means, but will wait till I do as I do not wish to borrow. This evening finds me well, but very tired.  Last Friday Uncle and Aunt and I went to Danville; Aunt got better, and Aunt Payne was very sick and we thought it would do Aunt Melissa good to take the ride; and although she is very tired, is a great deal better; we started very early Friday morning and got there about eleven o'clock, staid one night, and started home again at five P.M. yesterday, and got home about 10 1/2 last night.  One day and night is as much as I wish to spend with my Copperhead relatives.  We took dinner yesterday at Joe Englishes.  I enjoyed the hour or two there more than the whole time at Aunt Eliza's.  If they would let me rest on the subject of the war, and politics, I would not care to go there; but its nothing but "niger" all the while; well I think I have been there for the last time.  Today I received another letter from you, although I was glad to get I felt somewhat disappointed to find it had been written so long, dated the 4 of July; it resemebeled its author in one particular
