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(Military letterhead stationery)
Battles Participated in by the Seventy-Seventh E PLURIBUS UNUM LEE'S MILLS WILLIAMSBURG MECHANICSVILLE GARNET'S FARM GOLDEN'S FARM SAVAGE STATION WHITE OAK SWAMP CRAMPTON OAK ANTIETAM FREDERICKSBURG 1862-3 GETTYSBURG RAPPAHANOCK STATION ORANGE STATION HEADQUARTERS Co. K, 77th Reg. N. Y. S. Vol. Infantry Camp Near Brandy Station Jan the 14 1864 Dear Wife I now Sit down to answer your Kind and most welcome Letter that i received to Night and i was happey to hear that you ware well as Yourn found me well and in Good spirits Dear thair is nothing new to wright for i wright so often that thair cant much happen Batweean my Letters
i have Bin Over to Washes to Day and took Dinar with him and we had some Fride Beeaf and soft Bread and Coffie and i engoid it first rate
Mary you wanted to Know if wash was as wilde as evar hee is not he is full of hiss fun and that is the way that i like to see eny one hear i Like to see them have thair fun and engoy them selves as well as they can and as for Charley Davis i Like him first rate you wrote to me that you Did not want me to Bee to Entimate with him i haft to use him well and that is all that I can say upon the subJeckt |
if hee is around hear eny whare i will find out what Kind of a man hee is and see if it will do for hur to Corspond with him for i don't want hur to Bee a wrighting to some drunken fellow for i think to much of hur for that Dear the Boys are a hiving a Good time hear in the Company tonight they have had a canteaan of whisky and they are all a feealing Pritty well some of them are Prittey out But Dear thank God it haint me if i had all the Lickar in the world i would not Git as tight as some of them is for a thousand dollars i wont call no names and then they cant Say that i rot the news home
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