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Nathan Mowrer correspondence to siblings Ellen and Milton, November 1864-April 1865

04_1865-03-21-Page 04

bald-headed if he don't were a wig to shield it, I could pick his portrait out of several hundred, he always wore a smile on his face, & pretty looking man was hardly to be found than he was.--I have not heard from S. R. P. lately I presume he has gone East as he said he was; --I see by the last Regist. that The Railroad is [? ] about in Boonboro the Des Moines peoples is badly hurt about it, I seen a letter that come from Willis Holloway pretty close to Boonboro that he wrote here to his brother & he said that the Railroad would go through Wm. McCall field down a certain ravine & out by Harvey Battin.--Now Ellen I fear that those three men Job B. Vernon Johnthain Fruit, Oliver Hollaway that was report chilling to death is to true, for I was & am well acquainted with all of them at  Nash.  J. Fruit was desperate sick he could not eat anything & commence falling of in flesh just like a skelton & out of money already & Hollaway he was left back at Nash. when we were order to march from Nash.

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bald-headed if he don't were a wig to shield it, I could pick his portrait out of several hundred, he always wore a smile on his face, & pretty looking man was hardly to be found than he was.--I have not heard from S. R. P. lately I presume he has gone East as he said he was; --I see by the last Regist. that The Railroad is [? ] about in Boonboro the Des Moines peoples is badly hurt about it, I seen a letter that come from Willis Holloway pretty close to Boonboro that he wrote here to his brother & he said that the Railroad would go through Wm. McCall field down a certain ravine & out by Harvey Battin.--Now Ellen I fear that those three men Job B. Vernon Johnthain Fruit, Oliver Hollaway that was report chilling to death is to true, for I was & am well acquainted with all of them at Nash. J. Fruit was desperate sick he could not eat anything & commence falling of in flesh just like a skelton & out of money already & Hollaway he was left back at Nash. when we were order to march from Nash.