Letter from Sarah [Lane] Walker to Francis S. Walker

he first took sick to take care of  he has twenty six dollars and his bounty a comeing yet if wee can get it but is hard to no how to get it  I doo hope youre sons may get safe through  I want you to rite often and tell all the perticulars aspecialy a bout the boys that are in the army  give our love to william hardin and sister prudence  tell how meny there are at home of you  we only have three children at home with us not counting nelson  give our love to sister Jane when you see her tell where she lives and tell where you live  wee herd you were a living in new london  wee had the first frost here on the tenth of this month  it was quite cold last friday and satterday and some few drops of snow on friday crops are good here this yeare wee have plenty of hogs and would have pork to spare if it would sell for what it is worth but I expect thare will be no sale for it  I dread this winter for our wood is to haul so far and george has no help only too little boys not old enough to help him much and wee have a poore house to winter in but I hardly ever take eny thought for our selvs for wee have so much trouble a bout our children and a bout the war  o that the good lord may take the [cares/curse?] in his own hands and preserve the rite and over through this wicked rebelion  shortly is my prais  I think that christians should pray mightly to go  & (?) for his blesing on our great and good government and for our armys that have perild thare lives to save our country from ruin and woe  o that the armys would all put thare trust in isrels god and call on his name with one voice  he saved them in anchant days that put thare trust in him and he is the same god yet that he was then  wee are a trying to live christians  tell how you are a getting a long in the good cause I hope wee will meet in the better land when thare is no war nor no rebelion no seesesh nor traitors where god will wipe all tears from our eyes and wee will be forever blesst  wm nelson sends his love to you all  if leander has got home give my love to him and tell him to rite  tell vestaji (vashti spelled odd?) to rite some  i bleive I told you all wee dont have meeting very often  the christian church here are nearly all seesesh and what few and dont go often to here them  the methodist church is divided too some sessesh and some union and they dont mix to gether much  thare is a church a bout too miles and a half from here that are all union nelson was thare to meeting to day and to night they have a good preacher and have a good meeting a going on  several have joind  George wishes his love sent to you all  he scarsely ever rites eny so you must excuse him  he thinks he can rite it all  rite soon and often so no more at presant but remains yours untill death

youre friend and well wishes youre sister and aunt sarah walker

fare well from george and sarah walker to samuel and catherine and neice  my love to you all

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A Civil War Letter Home from Charles Pearsey Walker, December 3, 1862 (p. 1)

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October 25, 1862 Letter from Sarah [Lane] Walker in Gentryville, Missouri, to Francis S. Walker (Text Only, Four Pages)

Index:

The Walkers - Paperwork

Analysis:

Who's Who/What's What in Sarah Walker's 1862 Letter

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Sarah [Lane] Walker

George Walker, Jr.

William Nelson Walker

Wesley Smith Walker

Francis Samuel Walker

Prudence [Walker] Hardin

Jane [Walker] Leas

William Clarke Quantrill

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