[According to the 1860 Census Mary Fuller could not read or write]

granvill conty N C
June the 12 1863

Mr Vance Deare sur thare
was A gentelmen told me
yested ted day that you
give solders wife tranperts
tattion to go to see thare hus
bans when thar ware sick
and told mee to rite to you
and you wold give me
one and my husban is at
fedrixbirge and rote
to me to com to see him
and I havent got the
money to cery me and
I never have had nothing
from the govrinment
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if yow pleas S[???????]
this
and my hus ban has bin
in the Servis twelve month
and this is the first thing
that I eve ast fer in
my life and if yow pleas
give it to me t[h]are is
Severl tha told me that
yow will give mee
transpetation I havent saw
my hus ban in 6 month
and if yow will give me
that pleas cend it to me
in A letter to Frank lin
ton N C if you pleas I
am A pore womon and
have got no body to help
me now Mary A Fuller
to govne vanc