Letters of William H. Emslie

                                 April 19, 1861
                                 Buttermilk Falls

Dear Father
  I received your letter Thursday night and was
very glad to get it.  You say Pat Picket's wife
is dead, it will be hard on him poor fellow, so
Mr Chadayne is got well.  I am glad of that   so
you bake more now than you did.  Pick does all
right  he is a good horse.  These shoes of mine
was not worth having.  they are pretty near wore
out already   the soles are all coming off and
they are no stiffer than a piece of paper.  They
are raising a company to go and fight here and
they would like to get Regan to be a captain of it,
but I do not know how that will be yet   Sarah
said that Mary dreamed that I did not have enough
to eat   that is not so   we have all we will eat
here.  My love to all of the family and to Grandmother.
Your affectionate Son, William H. Emslie
PS a mob got together in Fishkill last week and
was agoing to hang Regan for sympathizing with the 
South, but there was not enough of them or they
would.