Front roil va June the 18 1862
Dear mary I take this opporunity to let you
Know that I am Well and I hope these few lines
Will find you all the same Dear I am very glad
to here that you ar all Well and doing Well
I am very glad to here that gorg is at home and
is getting Well Dear mary I am glad to here
that the babes is doing so Well and all the rest
if I do have a hard time I like to here of
you all injoying your selvs Well it [dose?]
mutch good We gust Went in to Camp here
last night I dont Know how long We may
stay here for We dont stay long in a plase
now We have not stopt more than too
days in a plase since We left strasburg
We have marcht over 3 hundred and 50 miles
since We left their Moley tell pap that
liut yasel [1] got in to camp the 16th looks fat an fine
moley I am glad to here that Wheat is good for
I Want you to have plenty to eat if I dont
get home to share it With you
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they say that the fruit crop in ohio loks very
promising I am glad of that for I Want you to save
plenty for me When I get home if I ever do
I recived a letter from you dated the 6 of June
and I got too day dated may the 27 one from gorg
pore fellow I am glad he is at home the helth
of the boys is very good now What is left of them
capt mc adams [2] is gon home if pap see him he
Will here all about the battel he Will bee apt
to be down in that neighberhood our regament
Was affuly cut up in the fight capt Horr [3] has
Cum in since I rote you the last letter
I have gust Caim in I have bin out to try to
press [4] some horses for to of ours got a Way
last night I did not have mutch sucsess
this is our pay day and I must go and sine
the pay role Well mary We draw too months
pay only this time things look prity dark
here now Jackson is following us up
With 50 000 men they say We have a good
[???] here and a right good body of men
to shilds divion and Banks and part of
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Mc Doels and Fremont is gust over the [McDowell and Fremont]
mounten 8 miles from here I think old
stone Wall Will get his dose if he
Cums in he is about 10 miles from here
our pickets fires on one another some times
Well Dear mary Keep in good hart rite soon
I must close up for this time so no more
but remains your dear Jo Diltz to mary Diltz
Joseph Diltz Mary Diltz and the babes
good by Dear mary good by dont for get yours Jo
June the 18 62
Well gorg I Was some What surprised to
get a letter from you for I thot that
old stone Wall had got you When he desended
on Winchester We herd that all the sick
had bin Kiled or taken by him gorg I am
very glad that you have got home for this
is the damest plase gorg you never seen
soldering eny I have seen every hole an corner
in the kursed state gorg I Was out a lagling
the other day I sen a black oak a plowing
corn I tuck of the plow and plowed one round
for her I told her she had better go to ohio
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she sed that I Would sel her I told
I Would not and she sed she Would go
if I Would take her but I told her that
I Was not in [??] tell rast the black oaks
thick as hops down here in Dixey gorg
[fure?] [Rite?] and Cookes [5] and old ordly
Went under in the battle shan Britten [6]
Mikels Tucker Doty Koler [6] has not bin
herd of since the fight nor Charly gove
gorge I Will bee very thankful if you Will
take cair of my Wheat gorg rite son
no more remains your dear brothe
Joseph Diltz to gorg Milledg