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Transcription: 

[no date and evidenctly part of another letter written in October or November 1862]

Carie you must excues my scraps of paper
it is the best I can duo this is all I got I under Stand
you got the rise I sent you I am vry glad of it you rote
that you had sent some flouer to get salt I would
like to know whether you go tit or now I hav
much I would like to know whether you got
the twenty dolars I sent to you by Mr
Denard or knon Carie you ort to see me this
morning I haven had the the chance to wash
my face & hands in tuo dayes I am smoked
dried & Slick I thin[k] if I could get some
close I could get Station I would get fat
giv my best respect to mother & all
the cornection tell your par & ma & all
the children I hav not for gon them
if I could get to go home & stay one
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wake it would duo me so much guod
if we get off to savanah I hav some hops of
getting home but if we dont I dont I have
nont heard from brother Sam sens I Sau
him in winchester about fiv or waks a
go he promis to write to me but I have
not got any I am oneasy about him it is
getting vry coald up hear we hav had
Sevral frost we had a white frost the
25 of last month Carie my pencil is So rotton
I cant half write you must write often & giv
me all the nues kiss the children for me
my harte & mind is with you all the
time frwell one & all I am your most
loveing husban tell
when this you see
remember me Carie T. A. Woodham

Date Note: 
October or November 1862
Collection: 

Author(s)

Unit: 
Company E, 31 GA Infantry
Rank: 
Private

Recipient(s)

Other: 
Wife of Thomas A. Woodham

To

To State: 
Georgia
To County: 
Stewart

Transcription/Proofing Info

Transcriber: 
Andrea Cudworth
Transcription Date: 
March, 2012
Proofer: 
Michael Ellis
Proof Date: 
December, 2012

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