June 10, 1866

June 10, 1866

Letter from Sarah E. Andrews to James A. Andrews, June 10, 1866
Hudson, Wis.

June 10th, 1866

My Dear Brother Jimmie,

Again I take up my pen to write to you. Gladly would I give up this habit I have of writing to you once a week for a good talk with you. It is a habit I can soon leave off? You can answer the question better than I can. I wish you were going to be here this week. Mother is going away and will not be back before Friday or Saturday. Father and I are going to be alone. If you were here we would have a good visit all to ourselves.

I imagine you are somewhat curious to hear what mother is going to do with herself. The St. Croix Valley Baptist Assn. meets at Osceola Wednesday and Thursday. She and Aunt Lydia intend going up tomorrow. They are going to Mr. Clough's. The last of the week they will go up to Taylors
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Falls. I should like to take that trip again. Mother and I were planning the other day a trip to Minneapolis and Minnehaha when you and Charlie come home. Will you agree to it? We received a letter from Charlie last evening, they were still at Fort Rice. It is too bad they have to remain there so long. I'll copy it.

May 18th.

Dear Sister,

I just take up my pen to let you know we are all well, and in hopes to get out of here some time.

Fifteen boats have passed here, and fifty more then the relief maybe.

I neglected writing last week for the reason that I was not at home. I with five of our Company went to Berthold as an escort. We will leave here about the middle of next month, not before. In haste for the mail leaves here tonight.

C. A. A.

Fort Rice. D. T.

Mrs. Cowles also had a letter from Mell. He said they were expecting to be relieved every day. I am sorry we did not write to Charley longer. It would be of no use to write now as he will, I hope, be home before a letter could reach Fort Rice.
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You ask how far the fire went up Second street. It did not go above the National Bank on the west side or above Mr. Rickards house on the east. You asked if it burned C. R. Coon's house. He does not live here, has gone to Chicago. He sold last fall to H. S. Clapp. The P. O. was yesterday moved into Mr. Clapp's barn. It has been fixed up. The chamber is to be used as an office. Rugg has commenced moving the Sec. Methodist church on to Sec. street. Fred Goss lives in that house where Edwin Otis used to live, next to Mr. North's; all those houses on that side of the street were more or less injured. Mr. Evans lives in the Northrup house, has bought it. Durr. Richardson lived over Darling's store. Mr. Darling has a rough looking store. The Stone walls to those three stores were not much injured. Mr. Darling has put a shed roof over his and put in some shelves. I should think it was real California style.

The garden does not look as well as usual as no one has any time to see to it. It is not all made. It has been very dry indeed for a long time until the past week we have had some hard rain storms. Ceal has not been home for two weeks. She went up to Richmond last week Saturday. We looked for her yesterday.

With love and affection,

Sarah.