Va
Frederick County
July the 12 1864
Der companion
it is with plesure
I seate my self
this morning to
drop you a few lines to im
form you that I am well
at the present time I got
back from Stanton this morning
I recved you and leter from
you and J A Sullivan and
J O Wilkerson and was sorry
to here that you and Babey and
Mother was not well tho the
balance was harty ouer army
is in Meraland now at this t[i]me
I dont know how long it
will St[a]y over thar for it is
cut all to peses the wuned
was Strod from harison burg
to winchester and Still
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A coming I herd Edward
Mooney was woned slitely in
the thi I did not see him
I Saw tid maderson he
was woned in the arm
I Saw sever felars that I
new that was wuned I cant
her from charley Walton
nor James Sanriy Saw Willi
am tompson he Said he be
leve all in his company was
kil and woned but Ed
pallel he is in magruders
[???] all was kil in meakes
compa and woned but five
I did not her hoo tha was
all that I Saw was woned
Slitely I am in hops it is
not as bad as the thay think it is
thar was five hundred prisner
went thru Winchester this
morning it repoed [1] her
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that t[h]ar is five thousen
more coming on I think
I gaven you all the nuse now
I will tell you somthing
bout my trip to Stanton
we Stared the first day of
this month and got back this
morning we had find times
I got A plenty of buter
milk at teentey five centys
A galon buter one dollar
per pound we liv like fite
ing cocks tho it is geting
scars now thar is so mey sold
der pasing that seep [2] tings
be for them you said you waned
to see me verey bad I would
hav com home when I was
at Stanton I was A feerd
the river woul get pas ford
ing and I cold not back
in time richards perswed
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me not to go nex time
thar was eney prisners to
carry of[f] I might go then
I woul gav the Souther confed
ercy if I could go home and
Stay thar like I could be
fore this war we lost A
man while we was gon to
stanton John Baker died
with the new mornion
the third day of this
mo[n]th tell J A Sullia
when he com back to fetch
me some ting good for
old milroy thing is gav out
now O tell him he lost
A thousaen dollars by not
being her if I had A wagon
her that day I could got too
three thousen dollars worth
I coul not send all that I
did get home nothing more
at present but remain
ing affecte hus ben untel
Death William A Garrison
to Mericka J Garrison