Kinston ..N.C.
June 5th 1863 }
Mrs Catherine Lefevers
& childrean dear and ever loving wife
it is with pleasure that I again have
the privalage of Riten to you a few lines
to inform you that I am well at
this time and I trust to the good
and merciful lord that when this shal
Reach your lovely handes it may find
you and the loving Little Childrean
all in good comfertable health Dear
wife I am sorrow to Say to you that
we air now own our road to V.A.
we left our Camp yesterday a bout
Twelve o clock we air now waten
for a train to take us to Goldsboro &
from their we will gow to Peters
Burge Va Dear wife I was in hopes
that we would not Be sent out
of our own Stait this Summer but
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No 2
it appears tha it could not be
Sow I was in hopes if we had a staid
in this part of the country that I would
have you to come to see me after the
work was over this Summer But Provided
we dont gow farther then Petersburge
I Stil hope their wil be a chance
for you to come & see me I tel you
my Dear wife it dont seam posable
that I can stay our a nother Twelve
months with out seeing you and the
Dear little childrean I tel you my
Dear that I have studded and thoat
of you sow much Since I left home
that it seames like I cannot stand
to stay our Enny longer But Sow
it is I will have to try and tuf it out
If the good lord Spairs my life to
see this Dreadul War end But it
is only nowen to him ho and when
it shal End it appears that it
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No 3
wont End untel finely one Side or
the other is Kiled up Dear wife their
is a good meny of our men a Runnen
away from our armey I most tel you
that their was a man shot for deserten
while I was at home But he was not
out of our Brigade But our Brigade
Shot hime our men saw it don
and I am sorrow to say to you that
there is two out of our Regt condemed
to Be shot to Death in a few Days
next monday was the [day] sot for it But
in case of us mooven it may put
off a day or Two they air Boath out
of Company I. in the 46th they have
Runaway 5 or 6 times since we
have Bin out there is a nother one
out of the same Co. that had his head
shaved as clean own one side as
the inside of your hand and they their
was a whole Cut out of the head
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of a flower Bairel and that is
sliped over his head and he has
to wair it Twis a day he is marched
threw the Regt in this way with his
head sticken our of the flower
Bairel and now hat own his head
I tel you his head sow naked and the
other side long hair own it But I
tel you if their aint something don
to stop Deserten the armey wil
Brake up of corse it Cannot Brake
up two soon for me But I would
hate to see it end in that way after
it has Come to what is it Dear
wife I hope it will soon End in
a more honerable way then that my
Dear wife I am very an cious to
hear from you one time more it
is now time that I oat have had
a letter from you and Henry also
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No 5 if you get behind with your
workin the crop you most get a nother
hand to plow a day or sow for you still
tell you cetch up a gain I want you to lette
me now whether A. Rudesal has promist
to cut your wheat or not as I had rote to
you to See him a bout it whether he would
do it or not and what he will do it at
as it will bee a hard time to get the
harvest off you had better see him in
time and make a bargen with him what
he will cradle at a day I am serten that
he will do it if he promises you as you
air left alone and now one but your
self to see to enny thing I can say to you
that I sead David Johnson & John Kemp
and all the boys that went from up their
to Bremes company I saw them last
Sunday mee and M. Haynes was down
their last Sunday and they was all well
I am a loocken for some of them up hear
to morow to See us I must soon come
to a close for I am a getten very tired
a riten I was truley glad to hear you
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had some bodey to stay with you in the
plaice of An I would a bin glad if you
could a got anny bodey that could a taken
more of the burdon of of your hands in they
way of labor I want you to lette me now
how Sarah Cline Suits you and how she
does Dear Wife you Rote to mee that
you wanted mee to have my likeness
taken and send it to you my Dear love
I can say to you that I had a notion to have
it taken this Day if I had a bin well a nuff
to atended to it Dear wife if it was not for
the Sattesfaction for you and the childrean
I would not a had it don it will cost mee
Seven Dollars to have it don hear Dear wife
I should bee happy if you do the same as
I had requested of you to do Dear wife I now
must come to a close you see I have rote a longer
letter and it is badely don as I am not in enny fix
for Riten to day I will close by Requesten your earnes
prayers for your ever and loving husband untell
Death Isaac Lefevers to Catherine Lefevers
I Send howdey howdey howdey To
Sis bud and the babey and want
them To be purty childrean tell
paw gets home again