Writing again from the hospital in Harrisburg, Ambrose Price updates his cousin that he is well, but weak. He notes that "the election went of here last week [and] the Abolitionists bet they got theyer old abolitionist curtain elected again," before turning to an update on his parents' health. The reference is to Republican governor Andrew Gregg Curtin, who won a second term in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election that took place on 13 October 1863.