To Mary Milroy From RH Milroy Feb 27 1863

              Headquarters Milroy’s Division 
                  Winchester, Va. Feb. 27th, 1863 
My Dear Mary 
	I have today recd. three months  
pay & enclosed send you $700.00 in two drafts on N. Y.  
one for $500.00 & the other for $200.00.  I think that  
Thompson will give you more than the face of these  
drafts, probably one per cent, that is one dollar  
for every $100.00, $707.00 in all.  They may be paying  
more than this.  You can ask him what he is  
paying for drafts on N. Y.  Such drafts sometimes  
sell there as high as two per cent.  He will at  
least be glad to get the drafts of you at par. 
     You will remember that I sent you a check  
on the State Bank at Indianapolis last year  
for $355.00 which had been deposited there by  
Moody in my favor for money which he & the  
9th Ind. Vols. loaned me.  I had a letter recently  
from Moody informing me that $100.00 of  
that sum was for a set of musical instrum- 
ents, which I had become responsible for, &  
the band of the 9th.  The musical instruments  
were got of a man in Monticello who has since  
died, & I recd. a letter from a Mr. James T.  
Staley who resides there, a few days ago, stating  
that the widow was needing the money badly.