hospital
richmond .V A

My dear Partha I now
Seat my Self this the 25th day [1862]
of august to let yew
no how I am I am nerly
well of the rumatis
but I hav bin Sick for
the last few days but
I hope when theas few
lines reach yew will
find yew an the babe
enjoying good helth
my dear I have not
got narry letter from
yew yet yew Sead
yew wold rite as Soon
as yew got home but
I fear yew have forgottin
it
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My dear belved wife
I have not got no
furlow yet but I
will play the trick
on old fishermon in
afew days I was at
the Sergentginerals ofice
this morning I in tend
to come home or dy O
how bad I wont to get
thair my dear Partha
I am coming but I dont
k[no?]w when I will
come if the lord will
permit me to com
my dear Partha tha
air giving furlows here
now rite to me as Soon
as yew get this letter
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John H Hartman to
Partha l Hartman
my dear wife I have
nothing mutch to rite
til I hear from
yew rite to me
whether your pappy
has got his wheat
thrast yet or not old
Stone Wall Jackson
has routed pope and
his army five miles
and tuck three
hundred prisners
rite Soon my dear
Partha for I have
nothing mutch
to rite
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I will rite yew a Small prair
All mity and most
mesyfull farther I
now beg and beseash
the o lo[r]d to have
mercy on me all
mity god
My dear Sweat
Partha I have
no more at present
to rite only that
I remain your
dearest dear husband
and I hope that yew
remain my Sweat wife