Silas Stepp to Eleanor Stepp

                            May  17 day  18.64

my dear wife and children  i rite you aline this morning

to let you now i receive your very kind letters of

the 10 and 12 of this inst  they found mee well  i

rote to you and ben  i have rote 2 to ben  i hope this

will find you all well and dooing well  i am dooing

as well as could bea expected  ihave now war news

to rite you  i hope the i hope the range ment you rote

about can bea maid  i want to come to the mountains

to summer  there is adetail made our now to go home

to get horses  drew burnet is coming with them to

get John and fetch him here  they start in the morning

drew  rile powers  will allison  J. C. davis and two others

Six in all  they will be gone 25 days  drew is on post

now  if hee comes iwill send afiew litle things by

him  you nead [not] send send mee any clothin  ihave

got enough to doo mee this summer  let me now

if you have got the cow from copelins and how

she done  i sent alittle book in aletter to mary

rite if you got it  i think i have got the most

of your letters you rote to mee  some times it is too

weeks betwen  then they come in close to gether

it is about all the Satisfaction i see to get letters to

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read from home and to rite to you  them and

my little old book is asatisfaction to mee  ihope i

will get to see you before long  i cant tel yiet

have all done you can with whay you rote about  iwill

give any thing that i have here to get to come to the

mountains  i have talk to cap folk about our na<mes?>      [Capt. James S. Folk]

he says he will have it stopt rite of[f]  if hee dont

i will giv what hee ort to have  col folk is good           [Col. George N. Folk]

to us  capt is better to us then hee has bin  the

row wee had coold him  dont bea uneasy about mee

i will try to take care of my self the best i can

i sent you half quir of paper  some envelop  some indigo seed  some

butons  abelt and cap box with caps init  2 papers of catridg  my  

gloves and cap  one bottle of pouder  2 pen pints  10 stamps

one hammer  isent them in my dirty hbersack  send it           [haversack]

back by him if you pleas  i aint time to fix up aney

thing hardly  ihope to here from you soon  i must

close   S H Stepp to Eleanor Stepp