Rhoda Barnes to Milton Barnes, December 5, 1864.

Abstract

Letter to Milton Barnes from his wife Rhoda Barnes. Rhoda expresses happiness that Milton has not been wounded or worse in the recnt actions about which she has read in his letters and the newspaper. She mentions other soldiers about which she has read (colonels Stricland and Lane and General Newton). She also mentions that their young daughter, Tirza, misses her father.