1 Martha Benson May 21, 1865 1
S S B S Pa
May 21th 1865
Dear Father
I must let you know that we are all well
and hope these few lines may find you well
the Weather was Very wet and
disagreeable but it has Cleared up nice the
nats is so bad that I Can hardly
Write the nats is as bad hear as the rebs
down south our Visitors jart left last
Thursday me and Emma and Lis and
Ellie hauled another heap of wood
with old tobe this letter I will take
up to the furnace next week we think
you will be home this month yet
Harry gossagne says you will be home in
6 weeks the news Come from Huntington
last week that there was 6 hundred
thousand men ? be discharged we got
the news hear that tho got jef davis
we only hope that it may be so
we got your Cloth - last Friday ? ?