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Mann family papers, January 1864-March 1866

1864-04-07-Page 04

yours have recovered from their illness.  will you be teaching when Milt and I get home I would rather hope not.  wont we have some nice rides on horseback: do you like to ride that way  I think it very pretty way for young people to ride it looks so gay I think I will ride like the Misses Van Eatons very well.  I was not acquainted with them at all.  it has been so long time since I was at home I have almost forgotten who I was acquaintanced with.  You and Sallie are the only two girls I have corresponded with, and I was so young when I left that I had formed but few lady acquaintances.  It is rather amuseing to see how anxious some of the recruits are to receive a letter.  I guess I was so when I was a new soldier but as we become old soldiers & we get careless and dont think of our friends so often this is about the fourth letter I have written in the past two months.  How is dear little Susie have you seen her lately  they tell me she has grown to be quite a large girl  I can only think of her as my little sister  I hope she wont associate with those Plum Hollow girls they are so rude and talk such light foolish talk I read some of their letters afew days ago they wer the most foolish simple and love sickning things I ever read.  I like a love letter well enough but theirs wer to much of a good thing.  I saw John Brown a short time ago he had but little to say about you and Sallie he used to always have agreat deal to tell me.  he said you and Mollie Lovelady. asked him about his not careing any thing for the girls (Vertically, at right:-) he had no business saying it.  saying at Helena. when I wrote it to you I did not intend that he should hear it but dont care Mr Fremont [too?]. and wanted to know if I had written it I told him I had he said he remembered (Upside down, between lines:-) you and Sister Sallie.  I am your cincere friend [Asa?] Mann soon I send my love to all the family, and particulurly to, I will now bid you goodbye for the present hoping to see you It is morning again and drill call has just sounded. this struggle is over I do it cheerfully. dear friends but believing it to be my duty to remain in the army till I do not like it at all and would much rather be at home with my life so that I will remain in the Army after this war is over will be the best of friends. dont fear that I have become attached to Army talk of your name being Mann. during the continuance of this war we person you like better than me. then and not till then need they home a good boy (which I hope I may) and you have not found some when this war is over and all is peace at home then if I should return People to make any rash promises while this war lasts.  while this war continues and I dont think it is best for young than to think we would for a moment cherish the idea of marrying to think people are so ignorant.  I thought people had a better opinion of us I go home.  A little boy like me to think of marrying.  why I am surprised I think people are very foolish to talk of you and I getting married when

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yours have recovered from their illness. will you be teaching when Milt and I get home I would rather hope not. wont we have some nice rides on horseback: do you like to ride that way I think it very pretty way for young people to ride it looks so gay I think I will ride like the Misses Van Eatons very well. I was not acquainted with them at all. it has been so long time since I was at home I have almost forgotten who I was acquaintanced with. You and Sallie are the only two girls I have corresponded with, and I was so young when I left that I had formed but few lady acquaintances. It is rather amuseing to see how anxious some of the recruits are to receive a letter. I guess I was so when I was a new soldier but as we become old soldiers & we get careless and dont think of our friends so often this is about the fourth letter I have written in the past two months. How is dear little Susie have you seen her lately they tell me she has grown to be quite a large girl I can only think of her as my little sister I hope she wont associate with those Plum Hollow girls they are so rude and talk such light foolish talk I read some of their letters afew days ago they wer the most foolish simple and love sickning things I ever read. I like a love letter well enough but theirs wer to much of a good thing. I saw John Brown a short time ago he had but little to say about you and Sallie he used to always have agreat deal to tell me. he said you and Mollie Lovelady. asked him about his not careing any thing for the girls (Vertically, at right:-) he had no business saying it. saying at Helena. when I wrote it to you I did not intend that he should hear it but dont care Mr Fremont [too?]. and wanted to know if I had written it I told him I had he said he remembered (Upside down, between lines:-) you and Sister Sallie. I am your cincere friend [Asa?] Mann soon I send my love to all the family, and particulurly to, I will now bid you goodbye for the present hoping to see you It is morning again and drill call has just sounded. this struggle is over I do it cheerfully. dear friends but believing it to be my duty to remain in the army till I do not like it at all and would much rather be at home with my life so that I will remain in the Army after this war is over will be the best of friends. dont fear that I have become attached to Army talk of your name being Mann. during the continuance of this war we person you like better than me. then and not till then need they home a good boy (which I hope I may) and you have not found some when this war is over and all is peace at home then if I should return People to make any rash promises while this war lasts. while this war continues and I dont think it is best for young than to think we would for a moment cherish the idea of marrying to think people are so ignorant. I thought people had a better opinion of us I go home. A little boy like me to think of marrying. why I am surprised I think people are very foolish to talk of you and I getting married when