Dear Husband

     I received your letter Dated June the 29 the 4 of July It gives me much pleasure to learn that you are In such good health & also for a letter to arrive here In such a short time perhapse I will hear from you oftoner In future I am glad you have such a good cook & live so well while you have so many hardships to undergo
I fear Something has happend to Will Jones & Capt Laird for he left here some 2 weeks a go to Join the regiment & Will has Been gone 4 weeks the 8 of this month I Sent a letter By each one of them & Some Pockethandkerchiefs & Socks to you & It seems that they have not reached you yet & In those letters I gave you a full account of all I had received from Capt Summers [sp. Sumner] I think that every thing was performed In a very correct manner for every thing was precisely as the letter stated & Mr Pullen has promptly attended to all of the Business you wished him to except Mr Evans he has not yet looked over his Books to See what the a mount Is But except that we are once out of debt leaving 100 & hundred & 20 dollars from 7 hundred I was compelled to make some debts myself after you left home
I Paid John 15 dollars & Fred has not called for any I do not Intend for them to know I have very much on hands until the summers work Is over for fear of some trouble

Mr Pullen came over this morning & Said that Mr allen would not accept the remainder of the money unless I presented It my Self & at my own risk as no one knows I have It on hands I thought I would keep It 2 or 3 weeks yet as there seems to Bee a little uneasiness concering the Safety of Rockport there was a young lady residing In Owensborough [sp. Owensboro] proposed to a gentleman last week to take her to Evansville on a visit & on their way there was 2 men withe the party that attacted them that was seen at her Fathers the night be fore he was a union man & they took him a prisner & one of those men & her went to evansville taking the horses & Carriage with them & the report Is that She was taken a Prisner at Evansville
would that all such tratores were captured
there has Been quite a number of Prisnors taken from Owensborough of late
you wished me to get Mr Pucket to attend to the stacking of the wheat he says he will as Soon as he can get his corn laid By which he will finish By the last of next week our corn has had 3 plowings & was harrowed & they Intend giving It the fourth one next week which will finish up the corn Crop our grass & this has Been a fine Season for Corn so far & all that Is on the place Is looking very nice & clean It has Been very hot and for a few days the the Thermometer stands at 94 In the Shade to day

Mr Pucket went In town yesterday to see if James Higins would come out & do Some work on the house he promised to come out In the morning & he thinks he can make Some arrangements with him a bout the work he says higins Is an excelent workman & Sheads Is getting very Impatient a bout finishing up their work
George told me that higins was out of work & he would work & take what ever he needed that Pucket had to spare for his work & his crop looks very prosperous now & he says his wheat Is very good he has not asked me for any money Since you left home he Is very accomodating a bout tending to any thing for me that I need I paid him Some for Some work he done during harvest he has Been getting Some for stocking cradles & such rations the grass & oats are now ready to cut & I will have to get Some help to cut It I Spoke to Mr Pullen this morning & he thought Mr Simpers would come & help to cut the meadow so I asked him If he would see him & get him to come In the morning
     Now I will feel Sadly disapointed If you do not go to Memphis for I have Ben making preperations to go down In Sompany with others that Intended going now you dont know how Slowly the time passes off now you have Been a way So long & If you expect to remain at any convenient place for me to

Come & See you please send me word In time for I can get company to go with me the children are all going to School now we are all well & the relations are all well as far as I know Mrs Pullen Is waiting for me to go to Mr Puckets with her she sends her love at you Jane & the children is very ankcious to see you I must close for the present

your affectionate wife
Minerva
Thomas