Hartford  Aug 30 1864
   Dear Brother
			I have not much
news to write this evening but as
I forgot to send you any money in
my last I thought I would write a 
few lines  The folks are all well
as usual (except) Alfred had a 
			   last week
log rolled on to his foot ^ and hurt
it pretty bad.  So that He is not able
to bear any weight on it  Mrs Sutton
was buried last week  Mr Suttons
health is poor  There is considerable
excitement about the draft  some are
enlisting some runing away and some hiring
substitutes  Lawyer Upton has 
enlisted as quartermaster Paul Reynol
Reynols has got home safe and sound
We have just finished the cistern and
underpining the house to day
your [falloy?] is cleard  I wish you

was here now to help fence it and
put it in to wheat  No rain here yet
it is the dryest time I ever saw the
fire is burning the trees out by the 
roots in the low land and swamps
where it has been set grass and clover
is all most out of the question
Corn needs cutting up and it is to
dry to plow for wheat all signs of
rain fail so far  There was some frost
last night and there is more signs of rain
to night than common
	Your etc  	H H Dowd

As Henry has left some room I thought I would
write a few lines.  Elder
Shas got his follar cleared
he had 4 acres choped South
of that peace that you cleared
had a loging Bee.  Father
has gone [illegible in original] to see Selden

he wants he should
[poney?] up now and pay
up the damage an cost.
Squarr up that land dicker
I suppose your time
is almost out.  I guess
you wont be Sorry
Wheet is pretty well up
I took a load to Decatur.
30 lbs of Butter 20 lbs of
Pork got 35 for Butter
30 for Pork  had 43 bushels
of wheet gues what my load
came to the whole came
to $1.13.  13 I think that 
was pretty good for one 
Load  I got $2.26  for my whet
I……Carter Bedell has
bin back here some time
he came back with

sitzaens clothes on
we think he is a deserter
he stayes at home pretty
close & keeps rather shy
I traded a Colt for a pair of 
Shears they were not very well
broke I went to loging and rolled
a log on to my foot it is a week
ago to morrow and it is not so that 
I can bare anny weight on it yet
Corn is ready be cut up and I cannot
do a thing it makes it rather
bad but I shall have to stand
it, there was a one Mr Cook
over East got a log rolled on 
to him broke his leg and
smashed his inwards
so that he cannot live
writ no more at present
So good by  A H Brown


J S Dowd
Care of
Capt Conklin Comman
ing
Gen Dodges Escort  In the field
Via Nashville Tenn