Fort Cass Feb the 29 186<5?>
Dear Wife I receved your
letter this evening Stating
Mothers illness I was Sorry
to here of it but gods
Will be dun not ours I
have dun all I can to:get
afurlo to go to See Mother
but it was all in vain
that leter Housten wrote
me was of no use it it
wasent wrote in his name
he rote it just like the
famely just gut him to
write for Mother if he
had rote me the rite kind
of a leter I C cold a got
home but it came just
as I expected that is the
way he dos bisness the
col wodent a prove
it when I Sent it up
it wodent doe there was
Severl looked at it before
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I Sent it up tha Said
it woldent do tha Said
tha never Saw as Shaby a
pece from a Doct it Sound
like he donit to plese the
famly that is generly the
way with those out of the
war I wodent a mist
geting home to See Mother
for five hundred dolars
but my hands is tide I
cant go I hope if i dont
See hur in this world
I Will in a beter one
Where thir is no war
to Seperate us from each
uther I have No Nuse of
interst to write about
the War my helth is
good I am glad to D A C is
home tel him to rite to
R,C,C,aldwell
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I Dont think Mother
Will live long from
What I can learn
but the Lords Will
Be Don not ours I
hope She Will be well
tended to in hur Sufer
ings Mag you may Send
my Box on I dont know
when I will be home
I dont kno whether [another?]
Six month more maby
not then So you nedent
look for R,C,Caldwell
that is in vain that
mony I Dont care what
you do with it let
Parks keep it I Dont
want it I Sent a letter
to you by privet conroy
the las one I wrote
Nuth more may god
Bles the Destrest
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and the afficted
and Be ther
guide

R C C
M J C