Dear friend and husband it is with grate pleasure that i rite to you to let you now that mea and my children is well hoping these few lins will find you in good health i have just red the leter that you sent mea and was glad to her that you was alive but you did not say whether you was well or not but i hope you was. . my dear i hant forgot you for i think of you every hour in the day and would all most give up my life if you could bea back at home to stay with mea and your children. . i dont now how wee will git our nessaryes for money is scerce here i have got all of our property yet i have not sold eny of it yet and i think that i will keep it for i cant sell it for its worth only bacon or beef catle and i hant got eny of that so turn over. –elizabeth watson, 1861 according to her letter, which challenges did elizabeth watson face? check all that apply. lack of money lack of property limited supplies separation from a loved one dangerous raids on local shops

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?