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Camp Near Warenton
Aug the 19 (Year not given, believed 1863)
Dear Wife

iI Now sit Down to answer Your kind and most welcome Letter
it found me well and i hope that theas few Lines now find you the same and thair is not much news to right for I have riten to you so often that i cant think up eny thing new to right i went over to the rigiment thiss morning with a sittizen that they arested yestarday to take him threw the Lines and i went to the company and Tom Regan had a List of the men that was drafted in Victory and i ame Glad to see the Cornealus Shaw is Draftd and Charly Attwell and Bob Attwell and Charles Leggitt and some others that i no and Leandar Sautterly and i think that they had Better come Down and help Put down thiss wicked war for i think that it cant Last Long Mary i ame Glad that you enjoid yourself up to the fort and i want you to Go and take all the comfort that you can Dear i Like my Job first rate and i shall stick to it as Long as I can you may Bet hey on that and win
the rigiment Lays about 1 milde from hear i cant Bare to stay thair Long when i go over thair for it seames Lonesome Most all the Boys are detaild out of the company

what haint off to the hospital sick A S Green is at Gittiesburgh hospital sick Earl had a Lettr from him Last night and hee sed that hee was Detaild thair to help take care of the sick and wonded and i ame Glad of it for A. S. was sick when he fell out for i was with him when he fell out But i had a pass and hee did not and they Reported him as a Deseartor and they have reducet him to the ranks
Earl is Prmoted in his Plaice and if i was in A. S Plaice i would nevar come Back not if i could help it and i should try it eny way i ame a goin to right him thiss after noon and i shall tell him to stay thair as Long as hee can for they have Plaid a mean Game on him Mary Give my Love to all i have sent you a Lettr with 5 dollars in it and one with a Gold dollar in it for Mattie and i have Got another to and if you Git that one all right hear is my Love to all the Girles and a thousand kisses for you
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Mary E. Bump My Dear Wife

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