Dear fother I imbra [December 11, 1862]
ce the presant oppor
tunity of droping
you a few lines to let you know
that I am well at this time
and doing the best I can
I am at Danville Va I was
detaild here for Provost gard
and they say we will stay
here til the war ends we have
verry good fare here we have
a good brick hous to stay in
I will give you the names
of the boys that is with me
Warren Gillespie Reuben
Dunnagan AN H Simms
D W Adkins John Johnson
John Hutson I want you
to write to me often I
have not had a letter from
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from you sence I left home
I am only about one hundred
miles from home I will come
to a close write to me soon
Direct your letter to danville
Va Privet Isaac Copland
Provost guard in Care of
Lautinant Williams
Isaac Copland
To Hardin Copland
December 11th 1862
I receved all of the things
that you sent me