[1] Champaign Co Ohio
June the 24 1863
Dear mother your kind letter
has just Cum to hand I am very
glad to here that you ar Well
We ar all Well as Comen and I hope
these few lines Will find you all
injoying the same blessing
mother I have bin home her
for most four Weeks and my
time to go back is most
up I expect to start back
day after tomorow mother
I have injoyed my self very
Well you Wanted to know how
how John Protsmans [2] is getting
along I Cant tell you mutch of
them I Was their once since I have
bin home they Wair Well then I have
very good love for them so I dont
make mutch inquries after them
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mother you may Wonder som
at this but When I tell how
it originated you Will think I am
Wright I Was oaing a dept in
urbana of thirty five dolars Well
I left a note With mary on old
man Purtelbaugh for the sam
amount Wutch Was dew some
time befour the note in town
Was dew so When old Pert Paid
mary the money John [3] he
blusters up for the money
he Wanted to borrei it
so mary told him that if her
pap Was Wiling it Was all right
if he Would pay it in good time
so her pap let him have it for
to month for one dolar intrust
and When the time Cum for him
to pay it he haddent it but
he Would borrie it so sidny
fooled along With him for
6 or 7 months till the man
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Was going to sue on it so John
he Wants Sid to let the man
sue me and then stay it mary
rather than have me served
When I had left the money
to pay [???] her pap to put
the [??]ss to John Sidny had
to pay the dept himself John
paid the other [??] to the [J?]ustes
since I Caim hom if you Would
sea the finery they get Sid sed
you Wodent Wonder they Coulden
pay their depts When I Cum home
mary an I Went to sea them
it Wasint Long till she [4] got me
out to one side and Comenst
to backslite mary and
the rest of them she is a damd
site mener that old minty
Jonson mary says
she never Went their after
I left but her and her damd
[durem?] Would quarl With her and
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our little babes god dam
them if evr I have the Luck
to get back they Will Cetch
What they Stink for she is [an?]
old [Jiny?] [qutridg?] [?] shure
mother you must excuse
me for using such abrupt
Language but When I think
over it Could Curse evry thing
blue mother pap can tell you of
Johns [5] good paying qualites
mother I Would like to sea
you all so mutch my helth
is very good at this time my
thumb is most Well mother
you must Wright soon you
can Direct your letter to
the regament same as Befour
mother mary sends her Love
to you all give my Love to pap and
John I Will try and send my phograph
Soon
[continued in margin]
no more but remains your Son J Diltz C Diltz
mother dont say enything
of this if you pleas for they Would
rase ned [5] With mary While I am gon