To RH Milroy From Mary Milroy Sept 6 1863

              (Note above heading) 
Brucy asked me today if I was writing to Pa 
I asked him what I should write for him, 
he said tell him to send more letters 
 
 
 
		Rensselaer, Jasper, Cou, Ind. 
 
			Sabbath Sept 6th 1863 
 
 
 
My Dear Robert 
 
 
 
		   I have just returned 
from Church, and sent to the Courthouse 
a basket of rations for our soldiers who are 
on duty today. Our town is under Martial  
law, and quite an excitement pervades  
the town and County, the butternuts 
are threatening to come in and make 
sad havock here, if a traitor is not given  
up whom our Provo Martial arrested last 
evening. The butternuts had a convention 
in Wright’s grove yesterday and  
Dick Dod of Indianapolis was the great  
speaker of the occassion, he is a pettifogger   
and brother to the Ex-Auditor of State 
whome you no doubt know very well, 
he was invited here by G. W. Spittler.  This 
Convention was in prospect some Considerable 
time before Spittler’s death, and it appears 
that he had written to a good many  
different speakers to attend, but none came 
except this Dod, and he renderd himself  
so odious by his treasonable remarks that 
Cicero (Our Provo) Arrested him in the evening