Harrisburg Pa. April 28 1861

My Dear Catharine

I have only time to write you a very few lines I went to church this morning but am now to work in my office It appears irreg[ular] yet I do not know how to help it in war there can be no Sunday. The great evil of war is its demoralization of the people[?] we now expect to send twenty thousand more troops. Things appear to be coming to a point very rappidly. I do hope the war may be a short one. I trust that you are having things got along with well at home. I wrote to Alfred Hayes that the Ladies need not make shirts for the men now in Camp They may if they see proper equip the next Company The state will furnish the men now in service before you could reach them

I hope you will write to me often and very fully I have not yet changed my boarding house Perhaps I had better not do so I am much annoyed when I am by a constant press[?] to my room when I should be asleep or at least when I should have rest. You did not appear to approve the change very much hence I hesitate. Mrs. Cushman wrote me that if she could be safe here she would be in town to board. She said the war much alarmed her husband is gone to Fort Pickens. I believe she is now in town and has been for some days I have however not seen her as yet I am a little to busy to attend to other people I want to get home very much to spend a day or two then but when it will be I cannot say as yet

Affectionately Yours