Camp Near Cumberland gap
Sept 5 1862
My Dear wife
I take the present oppertunety of
Riting you a few more lines to let
you no that I am Sill well hoping
that these few lines may find you
all well & doing well I Stood on
picket last nite I Stade at camps
yesterday to take ther Bread to them
when it was cooket & Rote you the
other letter I could see the gap plain
& see the yankeys all over the mount
tain it look like home but I daire
not go we heard good news last nite
genrel Smith Routed the yankeys
forces 14 thousan Strong 14 miles
this Side of Richmon in caintuckey
& Routed them again near Rich
mon & then fought them at Rich
mon Caintuckey & taken 3 thousan
of them the dispatch ses then a
privet letter came Stating that tha
Surrounded the hole 14 thousan in
Richmon & taken the hole of them
prisners & kild them toghther tha
kild 1 genrel wounded 1 & took 1
& kild 3 colns our loss was not
1 hundred kild & wounded
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I am going to Send John ayankey
Comb in this letter & Some wheat
& I want you to drill the wheat in
Some Rich place & Save all you make
til I Come home if I stay 3 yeare
& if I git kild or die you can save
it then as long as you pleas it is
Some we Stold from the yankeys
tell John I give 25 cents fur that
Comb Jest to send him some yankey
propertey I want you to Rite me one
or two letters every weak if eny body
gose to lawarnce vill Send a
letter by them I want to no wither
you are gitting the money or not
I got aletter from Terrisa to day
She Sade that zeno had come
to see you She Sade She had heard
from you & that you was all well
Rite Soon Margret if you doant
take good care of my wheat you
& your old man shant have nun
& I dont ceare what [??]ve good by
H. W. Robinson to Elisabeth
& Margret & all the children
when this you see Remember me
W. P is in tolerbel helth