To Mary Milroy From RH Milroy March 19 1865

              Tullahoma, Tenn 

Mch. 19th 1865 

My Dear Mary, 


                        I recd yours & Ellas 
of the 6th & 7th insts.  I was pained to 
learn of your continued ill health & of 
Little Brucey’s getting his collar bone 
broken.  You will have to be very careful in 
keeping it braced up while knitting or he will 
be deformed by that shoulder being lower than 
the other.  The boys should not be alowed to go 
on top of the shed or house.  I never alowed 
them to do so while I was at home without 
watching them & helping them down.  I hope 
this will be a lesson to them that they will 
profit by.  I feel concerned & uneasy about 
your continued ill health.  I think a journey 
down here and a stay of a month or so 
in this healthy region might help you & 
probably restore your health fully.  Six 
new full regts. have recently joined me 
at this place & several others have been 
scattered along the line so that it is 
now pretty safe.  I think Lee is now 
effectively cut off from getting to this state 
if he should escape from Richmond which 
is doubtful.  We have now a large force