April 5, [18]64
Dear father i take the opertunity
to inform you that i am well
at present exsept a bad cold
i was at home last weeke 5 days
i am at all mira as yet at
barakes nomber one it is
cuite plesant here now
grass is cuit greene here
if you was here you wood
think it was as a com
pleat a hog pen as evere
you did see ore hog pens is
a bout 80 feet long By six teene
and whene we com to our eating
room to smel the ritch per
fume it wood give a most
eny won an apitite for there
fodder i have lost 16 lb
in to weekes here now
and an in afar way to loos
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six teene more if i dont
get ust to the fare faster
than i heave sens i com here
the capten sis that we shud
soon leave here for som other
plase there is som one that
dos die here every day
i cant com home enymore
i dont sopose but i shood
like to com right well
i must now close be
for i am cald to drill
so good by at presant
Daniel B Lee