Camp Marcy
Jen 29 1862
Dear
wife i take the
opertunety of sendig
this small mite it
may be of sum
use to you I will
send you eight dollers
in this letter wich
will make eighteene
dollers this pay I
was thinking of bying
a pare of bootes fore
thease goverments bootes
are not worthe much
this kinde of weather
I do not want to run
my self shorte
just now
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bootes hear are
worthe fore and a
half and five dollers
if i do not get a
pare of bootes i
will sinde you
too ore theree dollers
more we are all
well hoping thease
few lines will finde
you all the same
the weather heare is
still wet and mudey
it getes worse in
stid of better
I was expecting a letter
from you as i get
one aboute this time
everey weeke I left
this letter to the
last minnet
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it is comming
near role call so i
must close my
letter at present
we never hav a
dry stockin on our
feete we are all
a like fore that
no bootes would
keepe our feete dry
in such a place
as this

from your
affectenate Husband

William Band
to
His T To
His wife
Mary Ann Band
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I hav eather sente
you fifteene dollers
ore hav lost five
I tooke out my
pocket book just
now and found
my self mines
of five dollers
please let mee now
in your next letter

so i shall hav to
do witch out my
bootes