VA Camp near fredricksburg
august the 15 1863
Dear Wife i seat my self to drop you
A few lines to let you no that i am
in tolbel good helth at dis time i
resvd youer kind leter yisday that
you rote the[?] And i was glad to hear
that you was all well i Can tel you
that i hant ben rite well in A
good While i heard that the was maken
A Compney in A bout the mounten
A stay at home and i heard that
goodmond had jin it i wont to no
if it is Co or not you sed in youer
leter that you had draud five dollars
i wont to no if you went after it
or ast him for it i wont you to tel
me hu all has to Come to the army
i wont to no if Mark huit has to
Come ar not i wod like to hear of him
Comen out it is the toke that north [talk]
Carlina is A gont to go back the
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youin i dont think that it is worth
our while to be fiten hire eny longer
for we Cant never whip the yankes
i have A noshen to quit and Come
home if the dont fesh them out that [fesh = fetch?]
is dire i will Come home and stay
dire i dont think that it is eny youse
of A few of us to stay hire and fite and
them all at home what few we have
got hire Cant never whip the yankes
we Can fit hire tel we are all kild and
then the will be yankes A plenty yit
Co ithink that i will not stay hire much
longer i will stay tel i see if the will
fetch them that is at home ar not if
the dont fetch them i will Come home
and stay and i dont no if i will stay
hire much longer ar not Co i must Come to
A Close by asken you to rite sune as dis Coms to
hand derect youer leter to richmond WP Cline
Co K 46 reg in the Care of Cap Bost to Mary C Cline

[written upside down in top margin:

I wod like to see you all onc A gane I don’t
See eny plesher hire it is a hard life to liv]