[Eller served as a private in Co. F, 7th NC Inf. After being detailed as a nurse in Richmond for much of 1863, Eller was captured at Rickett’s Farm, Virginia on July 12, 1864 and confined at Point Lookout and Elmira prison camps before being released in June 1865,]

1863
Richmond virginia June the 1st
Texas Hospital
Deare friend i will write you a few
lines for an favor i wond you
to do for me if you can that is
i wold like to have an Detale
to worke in the governmend Shue
Shope at Salisbury or at Raligh
N C i wold reather be at Salisbury
if it wold be a chance if am this
a beld from field and i am Detalte for
hospital duty and i am not a bele
to fuill fill my duty as i can
make shues and it wold be much
mor benefit to the confederacy
i dond think that i Ever will be
a bele for field Service any more
to sed and make Shoose i cold do
very well but for marching i am
this able to do aney duty that is to
walk much Deare fore i will call [Deare = there]
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upon you for an at vice how to [at vice = advice]
git a Detale to worke in the governmend
Shue Shop i wond you to write to
me and let me no what chance
it wold be and how to go a bout it
to get it fixed i wold tankfuley
thanke you if you cold have me Detal
to work in the Shooe Shop and if you
cand i wold tank you also for tring
So nothing more at this time i am
your friend Caleb Eller To Mr
Z B Vance

write Soon and let me no
what you can do for me Direct
to Caleb Eller Texas Hospital in
care of Dr Sunday Richmond va