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Collection Name	Monroe County At War and At Home
Repository	Monroe County History Center
Item ID	80-45-267
Title	Peter and M. Nichols to Sarah Nichols
Creator	Nichols, Peter; Nichols, Martha
Date.Original	1864-03-12
Subject	Monroe County (Ind.) -- History Nichols Family -- Correspondence Family -- Indiana -- Monroe County United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 14th (1861-1864). Company K Indiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Description	Peter and M. Nichols write to Sarah Nichols of general correspondence.
Transcription	Blandinsville Mcd March the 12 1864 Dear mother I take this opportunity of riting you a few lines to let you know that we are as well as common and hope those few lines may find you well and hearty louesa isstill very parley she has ten runing sores on hir leg between the hip and nee and they look very bad I don't know what they will terminate to I entend to take hir to keokuk iowas to the doctor in a few days as soon as the wether is fit we have had some very bad wether for a few days it is snowing to day and lookes very dolful there has bin a good deal of wheat swed in this part of the cuntry though there will not be any sowed for a few days there is a grat deal of wor excite ment thouh illinois has filled every call that has bin made on the state yet though I dont know how long we can pull calls for the union men is getting thined out pretty small though the union leeges has to take care of the war widows for the copper heads don't indulge in that kin of business though I thinke that they will have some thing to do after while if things goes rite thy gest Set and growls and mouth and all that thy can say is abolition and half of them dont know what an abolition is and the other half is generly drunk and some of their women is not any beter off than some of the war widows I want you to rite and give me the nuse in general f pack nor loo wont mor than three or four leters in a year now I will tell you about prodise and stock every thing of the kind is very high higher than it has bin sice I have lived in this state e[?]cep land and that is a plum drug now mother I want you rite to me what amount of interest is dew on them notes and will try and send it to you I am mity hard up for I have such big doctor bills to pay and th and that will make any man hard up I am sure of that though I guess I will live my time out any how I must come to close we like to see you all very much fair well mother Peter H and M A Nichols Sarah Nichols
Transcriber	Cory Burger
Item Type	Text
Original Format	Letter
Digital Format	image/jpeg
Language	en
Usage Rights	Digital image copyright 2010, Monroe County Historical Society. All rights reserved.
Ordering Information	This image is protected by copyright. For permission to reproduce this image, please contact the Monroe County History Center, 202 E. Sixth St., Bloomington, Indiana. www.monroehistory.org
Digital Date	2010-12-04

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