May
May the first
Washing ton District of
Columby
Dear wife it is agane
i do rop afew lins to you
to let you now whare i am
i am in Washington to day it is
sunday to day and wear
[a?] wating to start on agane
probly to morow whare we
will be campt un till the
ridgment is filld so i cant
tell you whare to right untile
we do get stationd in som
camp probly the nex time
i do right i can tell you
you must go to allmond
as soon as you can for
at the depoe is som money
for you you will haft
to pay the frate on it
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witch wont be m[uch?]
there is eighy dollars
in the packidg you
get it as soon as you can
and i will send
this check in ths
so you must keepe
this i shall soon get
som more mony
i got one hundard dollers
when i did leave
i cant right mutch
hanah Ann you
must have a new dres
out of that mony
and be a good girl
do what you do think best
with the money
so good by for this time
Daniel, B, Lee