1865
Petersburg Via Decem 3rd
Deer Brother i resieved your
letter an was glad to here from
you an your famley i am
well at present hope you an all
the rest is the same.
Well Isaac i have no news to
send you but we had a snow
here the twenty eight of last
month about 10 inches dep an
an the twenty ninth we had
a fire an we ran to it an
an snowballed the firemen away
from there enjens an fe left the
building burn down an the citizen
of Petersburg was agoing to makee
us pay fore it but the general
told them that we did not
set the bulding a fire an that
they could not mak make
us pay fore it
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Well Issac you said you had
that revolver kep it till i
come home that revolver
i got at the house where
Grant and Lee come to terms
of surender in the Apomatix
corthouse dont let no one
have the revolver keep it
yourself Well i must
close rite soo[n]
Wm A Guest