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[1] Camp near fairfax
Corthouse
Decm 31 th 1862
Deer bother i
got your on the 20 an was
glad to here from you i am
well an have been fore some-
time i supose you want to
about mother if she dont
want to stay where she is you
can get her a place somersels
near some neightors so that she
can have some company if
she dont want to go to live
with pat she nead not
fore i dont want her to go
with marth myself fore
i dont think she will be
used rite any way
Well isac if she dont want to go
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with marth dont try to
fors her fore if she dont to
stay where she is try an
her some other place so that
can keep her cow an if marth
gets any ways large about it
wy it makes no diferance
to me tell mother i said
that she had better keep a
house of her oo oun an then
things will be better.
Well isaac i sent mother
at check on the bank of c[h]ester
County fore $ 15 dolars when
she gets it you will haft to
draw it fore it is in your
neme name an if you draw
it you can have $ 5 of it kepe
an acount of the work that
you do fore her an i will pay
you fore it when i come home
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i sent my potrate [2]
but it a hard looking ape
we had a brush with the
rebs the other day but non
of us got hurt we kild 5 or 6
of them an took one prisoner
i was a fairfax Corthouse an
got wayed i was wayed in
the cort house an i wayed
185 pds i have gained 20
pounds sins i came to the
armey well i must close
my letter rite soon an
let me no about mothers
afairs
affo
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