Letter, A. B. Parks to Augusta Rice; 4/17/1864

              Choctaw Agency Miss    Mrs A H Rice   dear madam in ancer to yours of the 11 inst I suppose that you thought you had reson to think strange not geting my letter from me I ancerd yours the first I got & gave you a full histreay of what had transpired and thought you had got hit til I got yours of the 28 of March I am still trying to find out if the cars was runing & wood take frate for some time & the 13 I went to Crofferdvill & had 2 buckets of butter milk & Judg Carr sade he wood ship them & promist me that he wood ship them meal & grits & I was to sende them as I am going to do to morrow & intended to rite then & let you no what I sente I came by the ofice & Mr Reiley had sente your letter to my hous & Captan Pruitt sende them I got yours of the 11 I shall have ritten before but I thought you had got my letter I think that I was prompt to rite when we kep up a correspondence & will see so yet I sende you the 12 tarkys & 14 ducks the box of eggs 20 duz 6 bushel of cracked corn 4 bushels of peas a bag of grits a bag of meal I tride & culd not get the cickens I all so sende you a box of fat & sausige 1 ceg of butter in regarde to the to wheat & ry hit looks midlin well tho hit was thind out mitelay by the cold wether I am dun planting corn eccept sum I have to plant over & am reddey to plant the cotton I have planted 9 or 10 thous on potato hills the mules we got for ours of cours is not able to do the wearke that the others culd but they will be good when they get time to rest and mende up thay ar young and ar mending sum tho they have to wearke harde we got 4 mules & a horse & thay 6 of our mules thay stole 2 of the mules out of the woods I laust 8 days strate fowerd from the plows the mules that thay left was to pore and tiard to wearke rite of and the good ones that thay left I was afeard to fech up til thay left we have heard of the pones sence thay left hit is supposed that the commande that thay belong to will be up north of us & if we hear thay ar thar we will some of us go & try to get pay for them in regard to the black ons thay all semed to be for saving evrething they culd & I told them that if thay Yankes came that I shuld put them out of the wa & that thay had better keep out of their wa for thay wood make a bad trade to exchang to giv a good mistras for a cruel master thay all semed to think the same way wether thay wood or not I cant tell