Bedford ,CO, June the 8 186[3?] [1]
Dear Miss I [em?]
Bras the present optunity of ri[ting?]
you a few lines to let you now that
I am well hopen when thes few lins
com to hand an find you an all the
famla well an doen likewise I
havent nothen new to rite onle
I receved yor cine leter an was glad
to her from you an granmaw
I receved it on the 5 ulter an it [2]
Wos rote may the 27, 1863 i
In dont git neer as meny leters
her as I did at Mobile but I dont now
the resen of it I sed I had nothen
new to rite but I have we whip the
rebls a gen at vixburg an ore
men run 15 thosan niggers
rebels in Fort Hudson an kill
Them al but .75. an it was a
[??????] thing I think
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[I?] saw a soldir las nite who had
[??] n[??] the lins sed wone ar battry
[p?]lad on them a bot 4 hours an tha
never return the fire no back at
them an that shos tha ant com to
fite us thire old rosan crance [3]
has fell back to nashvill an tha
think Bragg will foler him an
if he doo we will git the plaser
of fiten you sed that my wife
was well the las time you herd from
her I was gald to her that I tole
William taylor what was rote
to tell him an red the leter to him
an let [?]rytt] red it he sed he
wa goen to send a few lines in
the leter nothen more at present
and I reman yor Frin till
deth rite to me a gen
Mr. E. W. Christian
To Miss Apsy Poe [S??]
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June the 11 1863
Dear Cosen
set my sef to let you no
that I am not well but I
hope thes few lins will
cum to you in [????] t[ime?] [4]
[???]nd you well [I?] [s?]tarted
[??] leter the 8 but I s[????]
[???]n sick an never got it
[writen?] I [A?] red the leter you
rote to me to william [????]
he sed to rite to you th[???]
did rite to you [?????????
excus bad riten an spellin
Give m[i?] best [resp?]ect to all
the girls an tell them to
rite to me an you all [soe?]
sou I will clos by [????] [my?]
nams W E Christien to
nancy Poe [Page 4]
Dear Granmother I set
my self to let you now
[t]hat I am not well but is
a giten beter I hope thes
few lins will rech you an
find [you?] well an all the rest
I was glad to her fro[?????]
for I dou love to git a [?????]
from old peoples to think
of them an I doo love to be
[rem?]berd by them for i
[thi?]nk of them an I want
[the?]m to doo the sam by me
Faytt an bill taylor is
both well [te?]ll my frins
to rite to me an you mus
rite a gin to me soo I wil
clos direct yor leters to
war tras in cer of W L wh [fowles?] [5]
[batt 4?] W.E. C. to Grany
Mc milion