…How has the draft went with you did you fill your quota or has Uncle Abe don it for you our township is at last clean by paying over eight thousand dollars. Father got home from Pittsburgh last week. For the second time he had been away every day for three weeks reading and collecting and traveling to Pittsburgh hiring men they got some for five hundred twenty five some as high as five sixty. When you write tell me if any of the friends were drafted and how they got off and what Uncle thinks of time. Father gave on hundred and sixty dollars and seventy Tax. I though erringly for him when he had no one to save but he said he was willing to give it if it would save some men….
e-mail from L. Steer 16 May 2005, part of 1864 letter probably Lizzie Steen to Ruth B. Richardson McCune