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which to your ears would seem quite natural. While on the march from Louisville here we had things pretty much our own way, not consulting the wishes of the secesh inhabitants but taking just what we wanted, and doing just as we pleased. Aunt Sarah, would no doubt be interested in hearing a word about my cooking [department?].

    I [illeg] containing dried fruits and numerous delicious which I generally mange to get into a fit condition for eating.  I can manufacture as good a pie as the ladies at home can brag of although they have better facilities for cooking and if the war last long enough so as to give me time to practice I am afraid I will beat them. 
   If Aunt Sarah desires it I can send her a recipe for making plum pudding out of dried apples.    Just let me know.   No more time at present. 
   Remember me kindly to Uncles Wm, Aleck, Aunts Sarah, Mary, Ellen, Catherine, Susan and Elizabeth and Margaret, Martha.  Cousins Eliza, Mary Ann, Margaret, Martha Little Eliza, Anne D.  Anne M, Mary E. and Rose, John, to Willie and  Jennie Kennedy, and my old friend John Mawhinney, (mighty good memory I have got).

Your nephew

    Jno. C. Fleming