To RH Milroy from Mary Milroy Aug 6th 1863

              Rensselaer, Jasper Cou. Ind.
 
				Aug. 6th, 1863

 
My Dear Robert
 
		We< have received the 
Frank Leslie, and the New York Illustrated News, 
which you sent us, and have been very much 
interested and amused in looking them 
over. I was particularly interested in reading 
your opinion of the different officers 
and of the hard row you have had to hoe 
and hope you will be able to hoe it out, 
for I know that I have a truly brave and 
noble man for a husband, and think that 
so long as truth and justice can prevail 
he must succeed. I have not for a moment 
despaired of your success, notwithstanding 
the deep gloom which has so recently enshroud- 
ed you, and from which you are just emerging, 
for I felt that truth and justice would 
prevail. Col. Crane and family are now 
on a visit to our place, he called to see me. 
I called on Mrs. Crane at Miss Smith’s, and 
invited and invited her with her Husband 
and the Miss Smith’s and some of our 
neighbors to take supper with us, 
we all regretted that you were not with us, 
I saw a notice of your visit to the Relay House in the An. Com. Adver. of Baltimore