May 4^th 1862

Odom Creek at Home

Hardy F. Scarborugh Esqr

Dear Hardy

I arrived home on Sundey after leaving you hous & found all well and wes hace continued so ever since their is no news in theis contury save a little excitiment about war the conscript act I has put the boy mightly in the spirit of volunteering Every mon between the age of 18 & 35 is in the field with but few exceptions their is 3 regdgement in Auburn at this tim ar a Lauchapagee I was at Auburn yesterdy and had pleasure of seeing 1000 thousand prisoners pass thorugh prisoners taken a Corinth they were as jolly a set of felows as you ever saw in your life they say they are fiting to restore the union & the constitio[n] poor devils I dont think thy can evrr accomplish all that not in our generation Hardy times is awful hard here meet is selling a 30 & 40 cts per pound and sccarse at that I sold my cotton yesterdy at six cents per lb dam the stuff it is a poor king i dont see how I am to out I dont know whether a person can perish to death on dry brede or not we are a [nioten] of making the trial what happende Adison he promised to be at my hous in three weaks after. I let thirs some of them must be sick we have had more rains this pring than ever I saw before and the bigest ones wheat crop is all mos a falure in the country it has at all got the rust outs here it two thus certinly is a fames on us at the same time wont suit me I have 30 Acres in corn and 7 Acres in cotton and potatoes sugar is worth 50 cts molases 125ct the yankes here [---] what will be our [---] aftr and till mondey that Mr Gaysons oldes boy Billy died the 3^rd of this [---] write me us soon as you get this Louisa Monk and the bulunce of the children join me in sending you all our love Lou say you must bring Amanda & Malvina up this summer no more at present

but remain [---] evr

A V Turner