Richmond Va general Hospital
No 10 april the 13th 1863
Dear and affectionet companion
I Seat my selft to Drop
you afew lins to
enform you of my helth I
Can Say to you that
I am mending Now
verry fast I think that I
will Bee able to go to my
Regt in afew Days I
have Ben verry Sick I have
Ben sick ever since [the?]
15th of march I have hade the
Newmona fever I hope those few
lins may Come to hand in
Due time and find you and
familey well and Doing well
I wount to see you and the
children mity Bad But ther
is No chaince for me to go to
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I send you Some Stamps in
this letter right if you git this
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See you I tride while I was
Down sick to git afurlough
But I Could Not git it I wount
you Ann E to Do the Best you
Can and I will send you
Some money as Soon as I
Can I have to pay 2 Dollars
per Day for my Borde and
it takes all my waiges
to pay my Borde and to
By what I have to have
I am tiard of of paying
So much for my Borde and
I am going to my Regt
Shortley I Cannot git
Borde Any Cheaper
tha wount let Leiuts and
Capts go to the privets
Hospitals and tha all Have
to pay for the Borde Some
of them that is verry Rich goes to the Hotel
and ther tha have to pay
from 8 to 10 Dollar per Day
I have Not recevd aletter from you
in amonth and I have ritten to
you every week During the
time Dont let my sickness
trubble you if you Can
avoid it for I am agitting
well again though I have
Ben verry low Down I onley
waide one hundred and 5
pounds and you may [??]
that I was very poor at
that time But I had
averry good Doctor and amity
good Nurse and tha treated
me mity well if I had
Not had good attention I
would Not amended as fast
as I have ther was about
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2 Days and Nights that I Did
Not know Any thing that
was going on at all I hated
Not to right to you Just haw
I had Ben though I Dont wount
you AnnE to let Nun of my
Sickness trubble you if you can
help it I wount you to right
to me and right haw you all
ar and how you ar makeing out
and how graney and Burthia
is and how all the Cornection
as far as you No is and how
your Cows is adoing and
tell all the children howda
for me and I send you the
Saim you
must Direct your letter to petersBurg
47th Ala Vol laws Brigade hoods
Division and Bee shure and Back
it this way Leiut E B Coggin