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In Camp Near Brandy Station Jan the 14 1864

Dear Sister

i now Sit Down to right you a few Lines to informe you that i ame well and hope that theas few Lines may find you the same and i was Glad to hear that you went and spent New Years up to Dicks and i hope you had a Good time i tride to have a Good time But i did not have a very Good time But then i hope By the time another New Years comes around that i shall Be in Good Old Victory all right and sound as a Brick
Ell you sed in your Letter that you had a Letter from a Solgar in the armey that hee Picked up your address i don't Know whare hee could have found it for i have not had a Letter from you Before in a Good and when i Git them and as soon as i read them i Burne them up But if hee rights to you again Let me Know and if hee is around hear i will try and see him and tell you what Kind of a fellow hee is for Ell i dont want you to Corespond with eny one that i think haind a likley fellow Probley you will say that it is non of my Bissnes who you wright to well it haint only i wish to you do well and i wish you all the Good Luck in the world
Thair was a weding hear the Other Day one of the Bardan Sharp Shootters marid a Lady out on the Picket Line and hee ha took hur home on a 30 days furlow Buley for him may hee have some Good times Before hee come Back down in to Dixey again
Ell the Boys are a having a big old time hear in the company to night they have had a canteean of whiskey and some of them are Pritty Noisey But

the Captin has Just come down and they have stild down a Little
Ell i have Just hurd Some news and that is that one of the Milles Girles has got marid and that they had to have the constable thair to make the mach goe off and as soon as hee was marid that he went off and Enlisted for hiss Country for he did not Like the one that hee was forst to take Buley for him
All the Boys are all well in the Company and so is all the Boys in the 43 Regt Ell thair has been an ordar Just come to the Rigtment that thair was Goin to Grant 5 men out of a hundrid a furlow and if they Do i think that i shall Git a furlow to come home Ell i want to ask one favor of you and that is if you have Got Eny money to Spare i want to Borow it till i Git my Pay and then you shall have it again for if i can Git a furlow to come home i don't want the money to stop me But if i have time i shall stop in Washington and Git any Pay and then i shant use Yourn it will cost me about 15 dollars to come home But if i can come i ame willing to Pay 4 times that Just for a 10 days furlow Axcept theas few Lines from your Evar trew and Loving Brother
Alonzo D. Bump to Elley Richards
Kiss Mattie for me

 

Ell Richards was Alonzo's sister-in-law.

 

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