Ludlow  Ind     
Sept the 1st  1864

Thursday morning   by the hand of your friend and brother H. M. I atempt 
to answer yours of August 8 writen at Algiers La which I received the 27 
of aug. and was very glad to hear from you again and to hear of your 
health improving   I was some uneasy when I got the the letter stating 
that you was in feeble health but my trust was in god that you would be 
spaired to return home to see us all in the flesh againe.  Now you may 
think it strainge that I dident get my letter wrote so as to send it 
out on thursday in stid of friday.  Well I will tell you the reasin.  
I came down to the office yesterday and H was gon down to knoxville 
to help Mr Harein raise a stable and dident get back time anuff to write --- 
leter so it will have to go out tomorrow eavning  Well now for the answer.
 We have had lotts of raine lateley ------ corn has come out considerably
 ----- we will raise more corn this ------  general thing than last year  
pray ---  frost dont come too soon  yet my corn aint as good as last year.  
We have had our wheet threshed and had our straw stacked first rate.  
I had 36 bushel of wheet to my shear.  Wheet is worth $1.50 cents per bushel.  
Wheet turned out very good. ---------- Now you wrote about some wimin having 
such hard times. Well I supose some is very cearse but as for me and chaps 
we have aplenty.  I have meet and corn aplenty to do me and expect to have a 
nuff to give the old souldier a diner when he gets home.  So you nedent be 
uneasy about us a sufering for if I was kneedy I have friends who I can go 
to and get what I want.  I will give you the pricis of things.  I have told 
you the price of wheet.  Old corn is worth 1.00 to 1.10  Bacon from 15 to 20 
cents per pound oats 75 cents per bushel  Huffman is offering to engage pork 
at 10 dollars per hundred.  There is some men a buying hoggs to fat at five 
cents. Cattle aint as high as they was some time back.  Beef if a selling at 
6 cent net.  Horses brings near any price a man will ask for ----- Hirin labor 
is very high.  I dident tell you what the threshers charge a ------ for threshing. 
They charged 8 cents ------- Just left the sttement ----- Prices is factory 
best quality ----- Calico 30 to fifty cents coffee 60 cents sujgar 30 cents  
so anuff on hat  Eggs 18 cents butter 20 cents ginsang 1.20 cents  chickens 
2.00 to 2.50 per doisn and in conclusion on the prices I will say saw hoggs 
in market 1.25 cents per hundred ----------------- Well I will write some 
about religious matters.  We have had a pleasant conference year.  there 
has bin some seventy actsesians to church and a good number converted to 
god but our conference year ends today.. Brother Shirley will preach his 
last surment at half past ten oclock am today and also at Mt Zion at 3 oclock pm 
but we hope he will be sent back next year to this circuit.  The writer 
preached from Romans 8ch and first verse for us at the grove last sabath 
eavnin  well Just Returned from Church  I set down to finish this letter   
Br Shirley preached a good surmunt and bid us fare well for a while  We 
paid 35 dollaars more than what the Estimating Comity alowed him so khyou 
see we are ahead in th finance matter  well I could write anbout the Church 
all day which --- sujpose would be interesting to you ----- read as it is 
to me to write while ----- ing About the Church  I will say ---- at the 
french Lick Circuit is in a bad ----- Br Julian and maples had --- which 
Resulted in a lawsuit in --- which Julian got beat  he talks of asking an 
apeaal  I saw him and I advised him to drop it for he will get beat agaian  
I am thankdul to god that wou Circuit is at pease which is very Desireable 
both in Chkurch and state  so turn over  sept 2 am  Just Returned from Mr Daves 
house Raising  I will finish this letter  Rachel has just Come  I must hasten 
to a close  I will say in Conclusian that the general health of the Country 
is good  my opinion is that well well have a healthley fall your folks is 
all well  Except your better part  she is all most down to see the old souldier  
well I must quit  the maill boy has come  You must take the will for the deed   

your affechanate wife untill death
   Rachel Morgan 	DS Morgan      

N. B.   I got a letter from you and Dick in which you apeared to Complaine  
I have answered all prompley which I have Received  Except --- last lines 
I will give ya --- an answer soon --- quit we are in ---- health so fare 
well your ----friend    H M
	
DS Morgan