Camp Write Macon Ga
December the 24 1864
Most affectionate Companion I being favord with good helth
this butiful morning of christmas eave while my mind
is wondring far from mea and near you I will try to cal
your attention to those fiew lines which leavs me well
I hope this will reach you in due time and find you and all well
Caroline I am doing very well hear but to bea at home and
spend this christmas with you is the desire of the burdensom hart
of your friend W.P. M and to pas this off I must
rite you a fiew lines I am a looking for a letter from you
evry mail I think it will cum in the morning and I will
hear from you and I hope you will hear from me soon
I started you a letter the 18th of this intanc and I think you will
get this the 29 and I will sind you a balled of an old war
song for you to up your Christmas with tho it is
not much tel all the connection to write tho I am going
to get me a qire of paper and rite to all and see if I can
get a letter from them I havent any thing that wold
interest you to write thar have bin a bout two or
three taken the oath and joind our army
I will close for the preant excuse this if you pleas
and rite son my pen is so bad I will Close
W.P. Mangum Mrs L. C. Mangum
hear is luck and love to you all So farwell dear beloved
I will send you a ring to war for my sake til I cum
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Camp Write Macon Ga
December the 24 1864

Dear mother i will write you a fiew lines I do not feel like
wrighting this morning on the account of not having any
thing to rite more than I am well and doing well to
be in this old war I hope those fiew line will
reach your worthy hand in due time and find you well
and doing well thar is nothig that wold render me so
happy as to be with you at this time even to spend a fiew
days and I do hope you will injoy your self and pass off
this Christmas uninterupted I think they will pay
us off in a fiew days and I want to send it home and
I dont no how I am to get it thar tho I must work
some way to get it thar tel Rebeckar to write again
I can read her hand as w[e]ll as any and I like to sea
any thing from a friend I wold like to see a dog from
home tel J D and M L to write to me and let me
hear from them rite soon and I will do the same
So dear mother far well for this time I hope to
hear from you soon no more but remains your
Son til death To Mrs Elza Mangum
W P Mangum to Elza Mangum At home