Lynchburg va July 31 th 62

My dear Carie I receivd yours of the 21 this morning
much Joye I was vry glad to hear that you was
all well thes lines leav me doing tolloble well
I ame to of went to my regiment yesterday but
I taken the dire four or fiv dayes a go it weaken me
very much my bouels as soer as I ever had them but I
hav got them a bout well if I can keep them so
it is one of the hardes thing to keep any ons bouels
rite in a hospital that I ever Sau the reason why
is becaus owr food is search I am darn to eate
any buef or surup I get surip evr Super
but I dont tuch it I wish you had my shir [1] it
never don me So befor the Dr cald me out yesterday
to send me off but he sed I was tuo weake Carie
I got with out money I bored tuo dolars from mr
Singer I giv him a order to you to get the money
I wrote to you a bout it I then tuok the diree I
did not know how long I would hav to Stay hear
I was a fraid I did not hav a nof to last me tell
I could go to my regiment I went back to him
& giv him back the tuo dolars & got five dolars
of[f] him I gav him & order to you to get the money
pleas pay him he was vry kind to me he sed
he would let me have ten dolars if I wanted it
I was so glad to see him it would make me
glad to see the menes negro in guod old Steuart
I hav not draun a cent from the govrment yet
it ous me about seventy five dolars if I evr get
it they had the bounty when I left the regiment
but I did not get it John Peek wrote that some of
the boyes had draun a part of it I recon if I evr
get thir I can get it at las some of it I dont want
all of of it at once without I could send
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Some of it home you say you never got the
five dolars I sent you from gordonsville I am
sory of it you wanted to know how meny letter I rote
to you from that place I dont recolect I was so sick
I dont know whether I wrote tuo or knon if the one
you got says any thing about it that is the one I
sent it in if it dont I wrote tuo the one I sent it
in I wrote to you a bout it Carie sens I got that money
from Mr Singer I live very well I went out this
moning & got unions & eggs I had a fine mes of it
I got a fine fish for diner evry thing is so hie I cant
bey much Carie thir is a greate meny georgians hear
they are vry kind to me they appear like kin folks
at leas some of them dos thir is a greate meny of
owr begade ar her Sick they say they tuok th[??]
battry in the fight I saw one from the 17ga he
sed he know brother Sam he ses cap Mathes is
the quater master of the regiment Carie thir is a
methodist preacher hear I enjoy me Self with him
finley he belongs to the congation methodis he is
he is the firs one I evr sau I receivd a letter from
hannah yesterday I will send it to you She
has a nother daughter I was sory to her of it ret
Ses She has rote to you sevral times sens
I left home & you have never ancer any of them
I would of like the best kind to went with
you to grampar Everett tell old gran mar
I thanke her for her kind wishes I hope I will
See her befor long I have a nother rising
under my arm & sens I hav commens writing
the Dr has came round & lanced it it pains
me very much I cant half write I dont think
it was wripe he is a bout as ruf as
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I want you all when you go to p[r]ear
meeting to not for get me I want your
prar I wish I could go with you to church
I am sory you cant hire a substitute I
would of give my land for one then I mite
of had to tuok his place they may have to
take them to fifty years old I was sory to
hear your pars wheate was so sory ouers was
a bout as guo[d] as I expected we have rain hear
a bout evry other day it has bin raining
all day tell mother & Ed I want to see them
very bad tell all of my connection houday
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Carie I wish I could hear you Jenett & martha
Sing some of them Sweate Songs Carie I drem I
went home last knight I thort it was the
happis time I evr saw I diden dream
of know one but you I want to see you
all so bad but I hope we will meat befor
long I would like to set in that piaser one mor
time I dont know when I will leave hear I want to
leave befor long I am so tired of this plase I want
you to write often I write more then you duo
nothing more at this time your unworthy husban
tell death write guod by one & all T. A. Woodham