Fort Lincoln Washing D C
Saturday July the 18 64
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My dear Wife it is with the
greatest of pleasure I Take my
pen in hand to informe you
Theses few Lines to Let you Lnoes [lines]
That I am well at This preasnt
Time and I hope that These
few Lines may find you enjoying
The same and father I am
going to Let you know That I
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Like my new home very well
we wer very near geting into A
fight the rebs wear with in 3
miles of our fort their was
A great ex ceitment we Could
see them very well but we
wear ready fore them we had
our fort very well forty fide
we have A bout [20?] big guns some
100 pounders and some [herzer?] [1]
but the rebs are now gone back
again the news was by noon
to day that grant was just
about entering richmont he
says richmont must fall
but i dont care wheathir it
does or not we have the finest
ofercers that are in the army
they give us as mutch as we
Can eat and the best of int
They ask us every day how we
Like our bording and they
Say as you youse us we will use
you if we treat them well they
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do the same our Captain said
all them that decerts must go
in front and their was about
200 decerted of our company
but they wear Caut and Cent
to Washington to prizen and
we get not hard tack we get
firstrate bread and meat and
plnty of it I am one of the
Cooks myself at the preasent time
and you may think that I
wont starve soon we have rice
with sugar ont it and bean
supe and pleantay of it and father
I am a going to Let you know
that if you want to hear it
thunder first come wheare we are
whin them big guns goes off
you would think that it histe [hoist]
the world of[f] its foundation
and breaks the wheels) I want
you you to write as fast as you
positively Can beCues i mabe
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wont get the letters fore some
time i want you to send me an
aunser as soon as you get my letter
direct your letter to the same
place you did the other one
we expect to stay hear all
winter our Captain says if we
obey our comand rite well we
shall stay untill next spring
we are building up breast works
and he says if we finish it we
shall have a rite to fight

fore it but the rebelion wont
Last longer then this fall
it will be crushed no dout
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Now I Want you To Write
As Soon As you Can fore
get it Not Direct
youre Letter to fort Lincoln
Washing D C
frome youre husband
Samuel Cauler