June 10th 1862 Richmon Va

Dear Wife Camp Sheppords hill
it is with grate pleasure
that I grasp my pen in hand to
let you know that I am well at
presant and I hope these few lines
may find you and lodema well
I reseved a letter from you this
eavening it dosee me good to hear from
you and to hear that you are getting
a long so well I would be glad to
see you and Lodema I would come home
if I could ge the chance but I cant
I hope the time is swiftly roling on
when this unholey war will seas and
lovers and friends may return home
I have been washing to day tell
Mary that I wosh she had of had
Johns old shirt to washed that I
washed fur him to day it was
so greesy that I could not get it
clean he is cooking fur my mess
he is as fat as a hog I think he
will way a bout two hundred [?]
stout and [rest of line cut off in photocopy]
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Dear Wife I have no nuse to write
to you we are still in a baut six
miles of Richmon watch fur the
enemy to aproch we wer all called
out this morning to go some wher
but I dont now wher we was a hardly
reddy to start when the call was counter
manded we did not go I wrote you a
letter dated the first of June I hope
you have got it I wrote your Father
one I hope he will get well I do want
to se hime one time more in this world
but if I never se him a gane on erth
I hope to meet him in heavin Dear
we far vary bad here but not
so bad but what we mite fare wors
I try to make my self contented and
promes my self better days here after
John queary will be up thare in
a bout two months Nancy I pade one doller
and a half fur a hen the other day you
may now I was hungr fur chicken and
I have not seen a py in I dont know how
long the most of the men in this
Regment are sicke we have a bout 300
men fur duty severel of our boyes are sick
kiss Lodema fur its Paw now
we are in good sperits this eavning J. N. Bradshaw