North Carolina Mitchell County Feb the 15 1863
Dear Bruther an law after my hole Respects to you I
Can informe you that my self and family is all
well as comon and I hope and trust that when these
few lines Reaches the 58 Ridgment that thay
will find you alive and well and adoing well
I have nuthing of Grate importance to rite to you
at presant times is like to bee very hard in this
Cuntry evry thing has Got to a bout Seven
prices Corne is worth from 2 to 2 and a half pur
bushell wheat 3 and Cant bee Gote at that porke
is worth 20 cts Grase Milke Cows from 50 to 60
dollars and cant bee Got for that Spun thred 10
dollars pur Bunch and evry thing else hy acord
ing the times is also a geting very squally in
this Cuntry there is a Strong talke of the hole
Malishey a being ordered oute and it has causd
a mity Confusion amung the people Green
old fellow it lucks like a Gone Case with us
enny way that we can fix it for it lucks
like the men is all a going to Dye and Get
killd up people is a dying mitly in this cunt
ry Joyhn paterson has loste 4 of his Children
Dead in his house now thay are a Dying all
moste as faste as thay can berey theme on
Jacks Creek I understand by your leter to father
that you are ruther Grumbling at me for not riting
to you I am willing to acknowledge that I have
note Discharged my duty as I would a rote to you
before now But if I was with you I could
render Several reasons for it one reason
I have bin Cearles and another thing I have
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had no paper pen nor ink but I will try
to tyre you out a reading my fulishnes
I Can Say to you that youre famly is well as
Comon a few days a go you are Grumbling at me
for not riting to you and I think that I have
a rite to Grumble at you for you hant never
rote me narry leter sense you have bin in
Camps as I have Gote you a pease of poetry
rote oute I will Close this purty soon and send
it to you Give my best Respects to Dave Woody [David and Wyatt Woody were also privates and Wiett Woody tell them I hant fergot Co. C, 58th NC Inf.]
them We never Got Rabern Garland B<??>
tell today Rite to me Green by the first Chance
and Give me all the nuse that you have in
Camps Sow nuthing more only Remanes your
friend tell Deth From S..C..Phillips
To G..B..Woody


[address written at lower part of page]

To Green B Woody
in the fifty Eight
Ridgment
of N C Vol