To RH Milroy From Mary Milroy Feb 6 1862

              Feb 6th 1862 
 
Rensselaer, Ind. 
 
 
 
My Dear Robert, 
 
 
 
	I received your letter of  
Jan 19th in due time. It does me a world of  
good to hear from you, and yet I feel badly  
when I learn of your trials, and no one will  
rejoice more than I, and our little ones, when  
“Glorious peace and the Soldiers return” brings  
home to us once more a good husband and a kind  
father. 
 
 
 
 I have not at any time been disposed to  
repine, but to bear up under addition weight  
of care, knowing that stern necessity compels the  
absence of my good Husband, to battle for those  
God given principles that are as dear to me, and  
our little ones as life itself.  
 
 
 
We have been so much  
more comfortably provided for than hundred  
of others who have been left without their earthly  
protectors, that I am not disposed to complain  
and render myself unfit for those duties that  
devolve on me, feeling that this tempory separation  
with the hope of having you home with us  
again is nothing to be compared to that separation