Camp Stone Wal tala Ala
January the 20/ 1863
Dear wife and children I take this
Opertunity of riting yo a fu lines
to let yo no that I am in beter
helth than I hav bin in for Som
time hoping these lines ma com Saf
to hand and find yo and the cildren
ingoying the Same blesing of god
Jain thar is a cal her for 3
hundred men to go to vicks burg
and tha ar drafting them and
tha tuck my name I dont no that
I wil hav to go fr Surtin yet but
I am myty furd I wil hav to go [1]
I herd yo had a pear of britches
for me I wod like to hav them
if yo can get the chance to Send
them in a fu days I am out
of money and I wont git to draw
aney before we lev her Jain I
wod like to com home before
I lev but tha is no chance
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Jain Dea wif I hav got to go
to vicks burg I wil hav to Start
the last of the weak I wil try to
git to com home if I can but
I am afrad tha tha wont let me
do it my close is al durty I
want to git Som washing don
to day if I can Jain take car
of yor Self and children and
lock to god for help I hop I wil
liv to git home a gain but I dont
no whin if yo get this and has
the chance to Send me a par of
pants in 3 or 4 day yo can do it
thar is grat con fusion in this
camp Jain I did not volintear
to go for I had got the promas of
going to the bridg So I must close
but remaines yor loving husban
til Deth good by to yo and al the
children if I dont git to com
by home Joseph E Wesson
to his wife and Rachel J Wesson
children