Jane how can you go so
long with out righting
to me i wood be glad to
right every day if it wood
not be shamed i did right
yesturday to Bill Pery
and to John Lee i have rote
to Elias and to Amos
and to my father sins i com here
i did send you two news
papers and to day i send one
to Amos to read and when
he do read it then you get it
and read it two i am so
fat that i cant hardley
get around my finger
has got well i thout it a f[e]lon
but it is now well
last night i did dream
that i was to home with you
and that dear child of mine
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but when i did awake it was
all vanished from me
it wasnt nothen but a dreame
but it was a plesent one
to me i have Cist my chld
in my sleepe a good many
times in dreemes sins i have
bin here if i did now that
i shood stay here long i wood
have you com down here
and stay ths sumer but
i cant tell how soone we
may have to leave here
for the front won may think
it fun but it is somthing
that will tutch a mans
feeling when he dose think
of home and his famley
here is now a good meny
hundard men on ths
ground now whare
i am and more come
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every day yesterday
there did com in nine
hundard men fif teene
hundard sunday night
how dos printis feele about
marks death or dont he now
yet if it was printis
him self i woodant
care
Daniel D Lowel
has turned to be a good
democrat sins he com
here and see how the thing
was last sunday he did
preach to us here and
did preach aganst repub
lickens ism and i do
think that the war is
at a end soon
but not me by not
a grate meny is dead
yet but hope for the bst
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so now good
By
to my Dear
wife And child
your bes frend
Daniel B Lee
right twise
A weeke
if you will