Camp Near Lebinon Ky
Oct the 23d /62
Dear wife
I take the oportunity of
wrighting you a few lines to
inform you that I am
well at present with the exceptions
of a cold and I hope these
few lines will find you well
and the Children and the rest
of the friends we have had a
hard time of it for the last
three days we have marched from
morning til night and last night
we marched til ten oclock you
had better beleave I was tired
last night we are in camp
now but we may not be here
one hour it has ben very plesant
here ever Since we have been here
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with the exception of nights
the have ben cold and frosty
for a few nights I received your
letter as we were marching through
Danville I rote you a letter
a week or ten days ago but I
hant had a chance to male it
til now all mail communication
has ben cut of between here and
louisville till this week the hant
had any male at Danville til
this week for Sevin weeks but the
way is clear now I was glad
to hear from you I want you
to right evrry week for you
dont know how much pleasure
it gives me to hear from you
I supposed Cyrous would have that
house fixed before this time I want
you to right to me and let me
know what the reason is that
he dont fix the house and
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let me know whether the
Corn is husked and the potatoes
dug and about the buck wheat
and how much wheat you got
I want to know it all I
got a letter from Rachel when
I got yours the were all well
the most that we suffer for here
is watter we have the miserablest
water here that i ever drank
I want you to take that money
and lay it out for clothing
and the next that i send to you
if you dont Stand in nead
of it i want you to pay my
little dets with you Stated in
your letter that you would
send me your likenes it would
be a great pleasure to me to
have it but you had better
not Send it I am so lodid
down now that it seems as though
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I would have to through
part of my stuf away now
there is some of the boys here now
and the dont know hardly what
to do with them you had better
get yours and the childrens taken
and keep them til i come home
tell Sarah Elon and lidda
that I was verry glad to hear
from them and i want to hear
from them often but the will
have to excuse me for not
wrighting to them this time
for i dont know what minet
I will have to start give my
respects to all and tell the
Children i would like to see
them no more for this time
you Directed your letter right
only you must direct to
william Culbertson Sen there is
two of us by the same name
in the same company he will
have his to william Culbertson Jr
[1] good by for this time wm to Julina