Mary Price writes that the draft has returned to Amberson Valley. Soldiers are "taking up deserters and Bounty Jumpers they have taken some and are after more[.]" Still, she tells Abraham that if he is drafted (in Ohio), he should "just come down here and not go as you are a single man you can run about from place to place which a married man cannot[.]" Mary goes on to say the family has heard from Silvester, but not from Ambrose. They fear for Ambrose's safety, "for thare is a report that part of Kirkpatricks Cavilry are taken prisoners and that is the man that he was under[.]" Later, Mary suggests Abraham should visit to meet some of the girls in the area; her tone turns spiteful, however, when she describes the difference between Democrat girls and abolitionist girls, writing "Some of the Abolishonist Girles Said they would rather marry a Nigger than a Copperhead[,] so when they would rather have a Nigger a Democrat Girle would jump at a white man[.]"