[1] Richmond camp Lee oct 4th 1864
Dear wife I seat myself to Let you no
this Leaves me well and hop will
find you and all well I recieved your
Letter and was glad to hear you and
all was well I should have rote before
now but wated to get all the news
the fighting are going on every day
more or Less there was seventeen hun
dred yankees brought in Richmond
yesterday moring I am still in camp
and intend to stay as Long as I can camp
was striped of men to day but I was on
gard or I should have been gone too I
[want?] you to tell your mother to take
[my?] horse and keep him till I come
[home?] if I ever do come back [2]
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tell betsy and molly howdy for
me I should be very glad to see them
but I cant tell when that will bee
the fight began Last thursday and
has not stoped yet rite me word
if you have got any body to fix your
sugar corn for you or not and rite
me all the news I will close by saying i reman your husband till death
E V Lane
I have not heard from John since
he Left I do not no whether he was in
fighting or not tell russel he cant
Join no heavy artilery it is all filled
up