St Louis May 29th 1861
My dear Son
Yours of the 1st came
to hand three days ago, we were
very glad to hear from you once
more. It is with sorrow we hear of
your straitined circumstances, ["not" stricken]
on your own account as well as ours, but ["as well as ours" written above stricken "but on ours"]
the same fate seems to have fallen
on all our dear-ones, so that we can
truly sympathise with you, I have
a letter from Bethiah now before
me with grief, she says that ["she says" written above "that"] they can do
nothing for us, that altho Charles
is in buisness in New York, yet they
can hardly get money enough to
keep their family, he is forced to keep
the stars and stripes hanging from
every window in his house, and to
wear a badge of national colours all
the time, neither man, woman or
child, can go out in the street
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