The writer told her cousin about the Union troops in Franklin, [Louisiana], and repeated the rumor that the Federals would go up to the Red River. She mentioned that one Mr. McWilliams was running a government plantation, "belonging I suppose to some true hearted Confederate...Such people should be remembered after the war." The majority of the men had taken the Oath of Allegiance, except for Mr. Nelson and Mr. Robertson. She also told of Old Hannah, a slave who, to the surprise of all the family, "had her things taken to the boat and off she went."
