July the third [1864]
Burg
Brest works nere Peters
My Dear wife and Childe
Agane to day i am Spared
to in forme you that i can
right to you againe and
i do hope that is[h]ell be
Spared to meate you
and hanah an agane
and i do think i Shill be
Spared to See you agane
But where i do lay ther
is men Shot all of the
time but the bleside
god has seene fit to S[p]are
me untill now and if
it is his wishes i Shall
be Spared to Se you
agane i do think ishall be
home in the corse of
two month to se you
and injoy the frut of our labor
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Jane to day is the day
to be [be se?] me in [bard by?] som
yesterday i did think of
the forth we have spend to gea
ther tow years ago yesterday
we did spend the forth in
the medow a picking
Stra berys to geathers
But yesterday meny a long
milds Seprates us now
but pray god to grant
the wishes of us both to
mete on the globe may god
grant it to be So O Jane
how i do long to see you
and Sis but you must
try to use all of the Judgment
that is reasinbale how hard
it Seemes to See so meny
Cut of in thre bloome
as is Cut of here but it is
as it is but i wood give
all that i have to b free
agane
[page 3]
Jane i do want
you to Stop work now
and See if you cant be in a
Shape to tak comfirt if you
dont take care of your self
we cant take no more
comfort for you now that
if you ar sick we cant take
comfort but if i am spard
to come home then i can get
a small farm that will
Suport us with out working
So hard and the we
can take comfort
this war is at a close s all
of the Soldiers think
there cant no fiting here
now ex what the pikets dos
yesterday was calcolated
to be agrate battle but
the day past of quite still
and there is mene at
washington trying to
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the ware
and i do think it will Be don
And if it ant settled
we Shell be home ths fall
Jane Lee And Hanah
Ann Lee hanah an
afew lines to you i do want
you to go to School and [??] to
lorne all yo can so when
your pap coms home
you can reaqd to him
tell your gran mother
that i do want to see
here but meny alongs
mils seperates us but
we Shall meete a gane
Jane sins i have bene
here i have be two days
with out eating one mouth
full and don duty all of
the time
Daniel B Lee