Murfreesburrow Feb the 5th /63
Dear wife
I take the oportunity
of wrighting you a few lines
to inform you that I am
well at present and I hope
these few lines will find
you the same I cant think
of much to right this time
the hant any news of imp
ortance at present and I have
riten to you once Since I
got a letter from you I am
on gard to day and
I hant got much to do so
I thought I would right
it is verry disagreeable
wether here at present it is
verry muddy and cold Snowey
wether it Snowed last night
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and the Snow lays on the
ground yet I have not got
that box yet you Said in
your last letter that you guessed
I rote to So many that I
dident get time to right
to you i right to you evry
week and fathers folks evry
two or three weeks that is all
the righting that i do John
Parker is well [???]y Williams
Died last week it is one of
the williams that lives down
towards Montpelier he was one
of the new recruits the rest
of the boys has tolerable good
health at present I have not
got any money yet it is
Strange that we dont get
any I dont know but it
is as well that is if you
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hant Suffering for money
for it is dangerous Sending
money at present and when
I draw my money I want
to send it home for it is
not safe to carry much
money in this Country when
I do get it I will send it
to you the talk as though we
will draw about the 12 or 15th of
this month I rote to you last
week and told you what
to call that boy of mine
if the name dont suit you
you must Say so i want you
to take good care of him as
well as the rest of the Children
and your Self right Soon
and let me know how you
get along Keep up a good hart
I will come home the first
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oportunity that i get I
think we will all have a
chance to go home this Spring
yet at least i hope so I
keep a good hart and you
must do the same
I think of you all evry
night and morning in my
praires and you must do
the Same by me give my
respects to all and tell
them that I would like
to See them right soon
So good by for this time
from your afectionate husband
Wm Culbertson to
Julina Culbertson