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Direct your letters as you did
Before Isaac to Catharine Lefevers

Pocotaligo Station S.C.
Aprile 5th 1863 Mrs Catharine Lefevers
Dear wife I seat my self one time
more to rite you a few lines to Inform
you that I am stil wel and I hope
that this letter may safely Reach you
and find you and the little Childrean
all in the same health Dear wife I have
nothing new to rite at the present we
have a power of wet weather hear
and the weather is quiet cool hear for
this time a year and Especialy for this
portion of the country I now If the weather
is as wet and colde acorten with you as
it is hear it wil Be verry much aganst
planten Enny thing Dear wife I can
not tel how long we wil Remain at this
this place But I cant tel whether it wil
Be the case or not their was one south
Carolina Regt left hear this morning
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I send my love and Respects to J F
Hutson & family please tel him to not
forget to Rite to me I am ancious to hear
from him

I under stand they air orderd to
Charleston S C there is some talk of
our Bregade Being sent west from hear
to Braggs Armey In Tennessee But I hope
it wil not Be the case Dear wife I should
a Bin very happy If you would a come
to a saw me wil we was stationd at
this place for it seames like I can neaver
get to come home now more Dear wife
this day & to morrow one weak wil Be your
communion meaten and I should be glad
to Be their with you one time more it is
Just twelve months a gow since we had
the privalage of communion together &
the Lord only nows when or whether we
wil ever have the privalage of doing sow
again But my Dear wife I dont want
you to stay a way own my account I want
you to attend to that when ever an opper
tunity presents it self to you and my
Dear wife I hope you wil and all
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I think I wil Rite to Henry to marrow
I wil now close By saying I Remain your
trew husband until death Isaac Lefevers
to Mrs Catharine Lefevers & Childrean

others of any friends wil Earnestly [think?]
of me and pray to the good lord that I may
Be with you tel the next communion meaten
Roles Round I want you to tak the childrean
to preachen as often as you can I now you
have a Bad chance of gowing or gettin them
their But I hope you wil have a friend
to healp you their and the childrean also
Dear wife I want you to take as good cear
of your self and Childrean as you posable
Can Rais them up In the Beast way you can
and In the way that they may Be Exceptable
with the Lord If they nead correcten you most
do it in a way that you think Beast may
lord Bleas you and them and Protect you
and them while I am absent from you
have them to Learn their Books when ever
you have the chance to do sow Dear wife
I most soon close for the present for I am
own gard a gain to day and the wind is very
colde I now it is cold weather at this time
with you
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please Rite and lette me now al the news that
is gowing lette me now how the wheat loocks
let me now who leaves out of that Neighbor
hood to the armey let me now how you air
own with your planten

Dear and loving wife I wil Say to you
that I sent you 30.00 dollars to Newton with
Joseph Rowe I told him to have it at
Newton at Gathers at the post office and
you can send there and get it send some one
that you can trust get friend Hutson If
he wil or can gow for you for it seames that he
is the Beast friend that you have Dear wife
I have menny other things that I should like
to rite But I have not got the time to do it
now there is one thing If you plant corn over
at maniels tel him that I sead If he pleased
to not lette his chickens pul it up he can
pen them a while Dear wife you most try and
and do the Beast you can torge Raisen something to
live own for I am a feard that their wil a heap
of folks suffer keep every thing as close of yours as
you posable can and dont let them that dont try to
do enny thing Beag you out of what you have got I
most now close for this time By asken you to Rite
to me as soon as this comes to hand and give me al the
news you can youse the money as you think Beast
If you dont nead it al you can let Henry have some
of it and he can place it wheir I ow I wil send
each of the childrean one Dollar In this letter and
they can keep it or you can get them something that
they nead for I have not got the chance to send them
enny thing els I wil now close a bove