Camp Bee Sept the 8, 1861 [1]
Mr A N Proffit dear cosin it is
With grate plesure I take this oppur
tunity of writing you a few Lines
to Let you know that I am Well hoping
When thes Lines comes to hand thay
may find you all Well I havent
eny news of importence to Write to
you More than our co is drilling in
a battry and I Expect we Will take charg
of a battry all of your friends
are Well in camp Except a few cases of
the Messels all of our boys that hav
them are giting Well W. H. and Wm [2]
are as fate as a bar thay Look better
than i evry saw them I am better than
I halv bbin in two years we get plenty
of fresh beef to Eat you Wrote me
When I Was at Worington you said [3]
that C. L. and thomas had bin
corting I Want you to tell them
for me that I Want them to put
that cin back if thay pleas
I Wouldnot it allow it When I Was thare
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I Want to See you all very bad I
thought I Would Come home at christmas
if times Was Still the girls Wrote me
thay were drying fruit to make
pies I told them to fix a pockut
in my over coat a bigon behind
and fill [?up] with aples tarts and I
would come after it we are glad to
hear our folks eny tine Nothing on
Earth could me grater Satisfacting than to
bee With You all I tell you more than
you evry of all kind of news
I want you to write to me soon as
you get this giv my respects to all
in quiring friends and except for
your Self I must close by Say
in ing I remain yours truly
A Walsh
Resolved that the flag of Suthern inde
pendence stand Wavern high over
Evry of Suthern Soil
Resolved that She may Evry flote as
She did at Manasses and betiel
A Walsh
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One day after [?????] [??]
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Lewis Fork N.Carolina