the 31
Arring Corte house Va March [1]
Dear Mrs Wright
I hav taken my pen in hand to
Rite you a few lines thes lines leav
me well And i hope tha may find
you And famley all well And Sow
doing I hav nothing to Rite that will
Inter Reste you all off the armes ar Still
hear thar was Some fiting a bov hear a few
dayes a gow but i hav not heard from it
the weather is mitey bad hear it is verey
Cold hear to day and last nite we had
Some Sleeate And last weak we had
A mitey big Snow hear it was 2 feete deepe
And we had amitey hard fite last weak
But it was Snowballing And we had
some fun ketching Rab bites & tha
Eeat mitey good hear but i wold not
Eate them at home I can eate eney thing
hear that we can gete but i cante Sleepe
good hear yit for the beead is Sow hard
to me that it lookes like Verey bone
Will come through the Skin but
I will Soone get use to it bee fore i get
home a gain But when will i git back
home a gain the lord onley nose
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We hav got to gow in to the battle
feild this Sumer And whoe will come
out a gain It donte look like that i ever
Cold get back thar a gain . Well ante
I will tell you Some thing what we hav
to eate we hav a litl bacon and alitl cofffee
And alitl Rise And but litl bread i tell you
I doe wish you cold See the mess that we ar
Agwine to hav for din ner Some off the boyes
hav gon out to hunte Some greeanes weades
for Sallet for dinner I eate more at one
time when i wos at home than i eate hear
All day It is not worth while for me to
try to tell you how we liv hear for i cant
on this peas off paper tell pidey that
I haint got that Ring for hear yet but i
Will get it Some day tell all off the childern
howdey for me And giv All off the girles
my best lov and complamentes well i hav
Rote all for to day sow pleas excuse bad
Riting and spelling for it is a bad chans
To Rite for it is Sow Cold nothing more
But i reman youres friend untell death
I shall exspect }} Pridday Wright
to hear from you
soon or sooner James .S. Chappell