June the twenth seventh
virgina near ritch burg
in batle line
my Dear wife and
child it is agane to day that
i am speard to in form you that
i am well and un harmed
but it is agrate wonder that
i am So for to day makes twelve
days that i have bin under
the rebil fire whare the bulets
fols like hale we have lost most
all of our ridgment the ofsirs
is most all cild and
woundade but my capten
was speard Lowell is ageting
better now but it is so hot
here that i do feele fant here
the other day i did get five letters
from you and you must right
planer for it did bother me
So mutch to make out them
Sam Carpenter is well
[page 2]
now i so think that the ware
is at close for to day there
is two men from England and
to from frans and too from
South at washing ton to make peas
if So i do think it at a close right
of now as to what Limond hill
rot about that hill boy i dont
now nothing for there hant
bin no Such felow in my
ridg ment ho did right that
let ter for you with a led pensil
tell father that i shell be to
home to help hay it yet
and as about coming to
almira that cant be for if
i could i should it was all
a mis take if i do be lockey
anofe to com home we shall
by a farm i shell have enuf
to by that yong lot i hant got
nopaye yet and wont untill
tis campane is over
[page 3]
and i think that a good
plan then if one is cild his [mony?]
is Sent home when i do draw
i Shill have one hundard dollars
or more to send home i have
got anuf by me now to use
my tobaco cost me about
five dollars a pound here
oure ridgment talks Som
of goin to north carlina
to recrute if they do it will
be away from all of the fiting
now as to your woring it is
uslis for it want make
the thing eny better a tall
if it is gods will i shall
be spared and i do think
and feele that i shill com home
hanah an yo must not
worey so for pap will be
home soones he thinks
then we will be So hapey
then So dont cry
[page 4]
Jane you wrote for me
to fix the properity So
if i shood dy you could
have it it is all [??]ne
now and and if i dey
yo can hold it eny way
How i do long to See
you and Sis
What Joy it wood be
date your letters
So i can tell whin
that hey was roat
i dont now how meny letters
i have had from you i have
had a good meny So no more
Good by all
Daniel, B, Lee
[page 5]
that sheete ante
quite anuf to finish what
i do want to right to you
S[o?] i do take another
day before yesterday i did
feele bad and i went
and bot som cheese and
it was a good chese i do tell
you and i did wish you
had som of it it did cost
fifty sents a pound and
i did by som dride beefe
and it did give me a good
apotite and be sides that
we did get som Sourecraut
and that was good and Sour
that is cheepe only one doller
a quarte i did go to the do
cter and he gave me
Som opum and it
did make me wele
[page 6]
agane it want nothing
but the diree i had
it has radged considberale
here and now Jane Lee
there is one thing i cant
get here and that is
postage Stamps i hante
got but one more and
i do want you Shood
Send me Som Send
five or Six at atime
is anuf be fore i do right
but onse more you must
Send Som my captten
is a good capten as i do want
he dont ask us to go where
he wont id do like all of my ofer
sers well so that is one good
thing for us my Capten
came in to my pit and [rifle pit]
the other night and told
us that the war wood be
Settled now soone he new
[page 7]
Jane Sell the Sheepe
if you can get three doll
ars a head but be Shore and
Ceepe those town orders
for they ar worth on the
three trity dollars prim
prim i am on the tree now
and they will bring three
hundad and Sixty doll
ars when they com do
So lowel sis that gibs
right to him
ths is the last Sheete
that i do right
Hannah Ann i have got
that five sents you sent
me yet and if i dont loose
it i Shell bring it home
with me i have got aplenty
of money yet to use
So now on the nex page
[page 8]
Now i most
Close So good
By to all tell mother
that i want to see her
right soone as you
do get ths right
[laner if you cane
good By to my
Wife and child
Daniel, B, Lee