Cline14

Transcription: 

Peters birg V A Camp lee
July 17 1862
dir Wiife i tak my pen
in hand to let you now
that i am well hopen
when dose fue linds Coms
to hand may find you in
good helth i hant got
nothen new to rite to
you at dis time i will
send you twenty five
dolars with Markie [1]
Shuferd And i wont
you to go to A tone and
git it rite o[?]e
Co [2] nothen more at
distime remember
youer dear husbon
on tel deth
W P Cline to
mary C Cline
[page 2]
petersbirg V A Camp
lee July the 17 1862
i dire wife i take my
pen in hand to let you
now that i am well
hope when dse fue linds [3]
Coms to hand may find
you all i good helth i hant
got time to rite much
at dis time i will send
you teenty five dolars
With Marke shuferd
in dis leter And i
wont to now how much
money you have got i wont
you to save All that you
Can tel i Come home
Co i must Come to A Close
rite sune as dis Comes to
hand W P Cline to
Mary C Cline

Footnotes: 
  1. Pvt. Marcus Shuford, Co. K, 46th NC Inf.
  2. Co = so
  3. these few lines
Date: 
July 17, 1862

Author(s)

Unit: 
Company K, 46th NC Infantry
Rank: 
Private

Recipient(s)

Other: 
William P. Cline's Wife

From

From State: 
Virginia
From Municipality: 
From County: 
Dinwiddie
From Note: 
Camp Lee

To

To State: 
North Carolina
To County: 
Catawba

Transcription/Proofing Info

Transcriber: 
Duane Gilson
Transcription Date: 
March, 2009
Proofer: 
Michael Ellis
Proof Date: 
July, 2009

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