Pattie Watkins, Mount Pleasant, Prince Edward County, to her brother, Nathaniel V. Watkins, 1862

Containers:
Box 1, Folder 3
Scope and content:

Happy to hear he has received the box of vegetables so soon; their borther Dick visited but was not looking well; Dick did get several new recruits among the prisoners; illness has struck hard amny of their friends and cousins, but their neighborhood and immediate family are fairing well; have had some severe rains which have damaged Mr. Redd's (?) tobacco crop, but the corn crop is excellent; fruit is scarce, partly due to a drought; Horace Booker (?) was involved in the Battle of Cedar River, and took General Prince.

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