Houghton Letter 1863-10-25 Page 5

it especialy the women you will
see them not more than thirty five
or forty years old looking like old
ladies of seventy or eighty with
the exception of not having grey
hair. Education here is
almost unknown excep by the
wealthier class. I have seen as
intelligent looking men as you
see any where but whn you
go to talk with they will
betray their ignorance of the most
trifling things and by handing
them a paper they
will tell you they cannot read
I am told by old soldiers
that they are not so ignorant
here as in Virginia but I do
not wish to see a state any more
so than this.