Camp neir Charleston deir wife
I seet my self this evening to let
you no that I am well hoping when
this com to hand it may find you
all well I reseve your kind leter this
evening I was glad to heir from you
all an to heir that Daniel
Boyd had com thru saft in the
last batel               January the 9 you
want to no how my horse look he look
ondly tolabry well all horses git plnty
to eat sinc we com heir my horse dos
not eat his fed we git corn an foder for
our horses we git beef an corn meel
rise an shugar you need not send me iney
clothin we have drowd pants I have three
shurts I have tow par of good socks yet tow par of
drours you want to no hou is in my mes
W. N. Hall, Peter Burton, Mikel Alewine
we all do a litel coocking John Lee dos sum
of it we git a long to gether very well
I wroat you a leter a bout the last of desember
you seven or eight invelops an forty
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scents wirth of stamps in the last
leter I wroat to you; I want you to send
me sum tobaco by Ganes Rampy an
a bunch of shage you need not send me
iney thing to eat I can make out withouth
it you sending me iney thing to eate
you had beter keep what you have at
home I fourgoten to writ to you in my
last leter a bout the coton if you can
git it gind an put oup on liven turms you
had as well have it don Peter Bourton has
Just now reseve a leter from home his
wife wroat to him that Ganes Rampy
was sick we ar camp at the same plase I do
not no how long we will stay heir we
may stay heir a good while I have
nothing mutch to writ to you at this time
thir has bin a good del of stuir with the
trups sum of the trups com back from
North carolina tha say Stevens regment
has com back to the islant I want to
got to see them sum of thes time I want to
go a sunday if I ant on gard we have bin
drawin our provishion an hors feed frum
Charleston senc we have bin heir
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we have had sum cold wether heir
we have had sum of the heveis frost heir
as I every saw at home I have seen ise
heir from mrning till night well I have
Just com of drill we have to drill twise
a day i wold ruther be heir than to be
in the regment we don have to keep up
camp gard heir but thir is sum talk of
ous having to go back to the regment but
it is onsurtin John Lee ses tel his
mouther he is well an harty the helth
of our company is tolrabel good exsept
sum cases of Janderes I wold like to heir
from Tennessee an to heir how the bois
did com out I hope tha com thru saft
thir was grat rejoising about Charleston
last firday shutin canion over the grat
victory in Tennesee but I am afrad
it is a deir one we git the news
heir every day from Charleston
the bridel that I wroat to you in the
last leter is still at the wi[d]ow Glens
tha will be send to James Tompson
I sent them by Glen when he went
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up home Glen will writ to his
pepel to sen them to James Tompson
then you can git them well
Mary you mus not think I have
fourgoten you it is the last thing
I think of at night an the first
thing I think of in the morning
is you an the children I will send
you sum stamp in the nex leter
I writ to you if I can git them
I sent you half of the stamps I had in
the last leter I sent to you well
Mary I will have to close my
leter so nothing more at presant
bu[t] I remind your loving husban
unto deth
Fenton Hall To
Mary Jane Hall
my love to you an the children
may the lord be with you
and the children
tell Essa to be a good girle
when this you see remember
me