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we just finished our dinnerer we boiled a lot of beef bones with
[snap peas?] & rice which was first rate. The Captain is going to
Tallahassee to morrow to the State [illegible] - he says he is also going to
bring shoes for the Companie which I most earnestly hope
he will. In one week now a good many will be out -
I am getting most terribly lazy can sleep like every
thing went to bed (or to the counter) at 8 oclock &
slept till 8 oclock this morning, what you say to that!
We are about 1 1/2 mile from the lighthouse and
about there one of the blockading vessels was in sight but
more at one time there were three so we were told.
Yesterday it was reported the Yankees had burnt a ship
that was trying to run the blockade - but if it is true
I do not know. The telegraph announces that
war is broke out between England and the U.S. but
for my part I don't believe it & there are a great
many of my opinion. But still it may be - if so
I do not belive that we shall get a fight here.
Our life is so uniform here so little of interest hap-
pines that it is difficult to get such a large sheet full.
An occassional fight gathers a multitude together
But when that is over everyone disperses to his quarters.
But I am told that Fernandina was a great place
before the war - a whole block of the prettiest houses
in town was burned down not long ago through the
soldiers. In a corner there was a small shanty where
two "cats" lived. They had a fireplace and chimney
in the house but build a fire on a piece of iron
laid on the floor some soldiers wanted to get in