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Transcription: 

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Camp Phillips April the 27/1862
Dear Mother
I seat my self
to drop you a few lines to
inform you that I am well at
this time I hope these few lines
may find you all well I have
nothing to write to you that will
interrest you mutch at this time
Mother I have reinlisted for the
wor our arms will be muskets
I recen I have never got but
one leter from you yet I want you
to write oftener than you hav bin
Maw I have lurnd to write in
Camp well a nuf to write my
leters my self Maw I wnt you
to write to mea as soon as you
get this leter nothing more at
Presant W W Brown to
Vashti Brown

[page 2]
Dear Brother [1] and sister I will
write you a few lines know sister 
I have got one leter from you from
Y I have got nun at
all from him you must excuse
me for not writeing to you
nomre than I do you boath must
write to me as soon as you get
this leter tell miss Jinny fits
houdy for me tell hur that
I love hur as good as I ever did
tell hur that she must write
to mea nothing more at
Presant W. W. Brown to
Nancy E. Brown [2]

Pleas hand this to
Mother W B
by the Politeniss of
W B Womble
W W B

Footnotes: 
  1. W. W. Brown had two younger brothers, Zachariah and Martin
  2. Nancy Elizabeth Brown, two years younger than Washington
Date: 
April 27, 1862

Author(s)

Unit: 
Company E, 31 GA Infantry (aka "Bartow Guards" and "Stewart Guards")
Rank: 
Private

Recipient(s)

Other: 
Mother of William W. Brown
Other: 
Brother of William W. Brown
Other: 
Sister of William W. Brown

From

From Note: 
Camp Phillips

To

To State: 
Georgia
To County: 
Stewart

Transcription/Proofing Info

Transcriber: 
Antonina Paver
Transcription Date: 
April, 2009
Proofer: 
Michael Ellis
Proof Date: 
August, 2009

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