VA
fredrickburg
August the 7 1863
Dear wife it is with
plesher that i drop you
A few lines to let you
no that i am not well
At dis time i have
ben Cick for the last
week i am taken sume
medson i have got A
pains in my bres and
hed i reseved youer kind
leter A sunday that you
rote the 26 of July wich
gave me much plesher to
hear that you wos all well
but it fond me in bad
helth we got to fredrick
burg last satday we are
looken hire everday for
A fite our Compney is out
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on piCit pickit dis is
the first time that the
have went and left me
be hind the sed that the
yankes wos in too mles
of dis plase A sunday but
i dont think that the are
dat Close it is the take [1]
dis morning that we are
going back to richmond
but i dont think that we
will go back tel dis fite is
over hire we heard that
theire wos fifty housen
yankes don be low Richmond
At dis time if dat is Co we
are in A bad box i Can tel
you that the men is all out
of hart the most of them
thinks that we ar whipt
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they say that the yankes is
Coming hire with A biger
armey and the ever had if
dat is Co we ar whipt if
i liv to git back to old north
Carline i no that i will stay
dire but i dont no if i will
ever git back are not but
i put my hope in the old man
i hope that he will fetch
me thru safe he is all my
dependes for there is not
pade to A Cick man hire Co i
must Come to A Close by asken
you to rite as sune as dis Coms
to hand i remain youer husbon
on tel deth derect youer leter
to Richmond 46 re Comp K in the
Care of Capt bost W P Cline
Cook big [2] to Mary C Cline
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A few linds to John summit
Dear father and mother
it is th with plesher that
drop you A few lines to
let you no that i am not
well i resevd youer kind
leter last sunday and i
wos glad to hear that you
wos all well i hant got
eny thing new to rite at
dis time only i think
that the yankes has got
us nelery whipt if the
hant the men is all desevd
dat is the Generl take [3]
i think that dis fite hire
will aind dis ware i Can
say to you that the time dus
seme Co long to me sence I
have ben at home rite and
gave me all the W P Cline
news to John summit