petersburg Septembr
the 9th 1864
Dear loveing wife I have bin Spard
buy the murcey of
allmitey god to See the lite of another
day and I Set mi Self don this morning
to rite you afew lines to let you
no that I am tolerbel well this
morning mi leg hant wel yet
bu I am with the cum pany but
I hant don no dootey Sence we was
in the fite on the 25 of august
the doctors excuses me from doo
ing enny thing til I git better
Dear love I can Say to you that
iwas nareley wore out on
that march and in the fite
and not half well but I
hope and pray to god when
those few lines cums to your
dear loveing hands that tha will
find you and all of our love
ing children well and adooing
the best you can
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Dear love I can Say to you that
ireceived the letter you rote the 26
fo august and I got it the 31 of august
and i was verry glad to hare from
you one time more and hare that
you all was well Dear love
you dont no how good i feel when
I git aletter from you and hare from
you but you dont no how bad I
want to See you and all of our
loveing Chilren and talk with
you one time more and Stay at
home with you one time more
Dear love I can Say to you that ther
is Some talk of making peas be
fore long but I dont no whether
it is troo or not but I hope and
pray to you that tha will Stop this
cruel and unjust war before
long for I am So tired of it that
I dont no what to doo but I will
try and doo the best I can and I
hope and pray to god to See it end
before long
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Dear love you Say in your letter
that tha was agoing press everything
tha can git and take all the horses
and mules tha can git and cattle
and hogs Dear love I dont want
you to let them have that big
mule for if you let them have
her I dont no how you will git
along then I dont want you to
let them have non if you can
help it but if tha will take enny
from you I dont want you to let
them have that big mule Dear
love I want you to try and doo
the best you can and mebby
this cruel war will Soon end
that I can cum home one time
more and Stay at home Dear
love I can Say to you that tha all
got ther boxes the 31 Day of august and
I was alooking for one bu I dident
git non you Sed in your letter
that you dident git mi letter tel
the Same day the boxes Started
I dont no what kep it on the road So long
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Dear love the things in the boxes
was mostley Spoilt enny
how I can Say to you that I am a
yoseing up the thing that williams
wife had Sent to him but the things
was most all Spoilt tel Sarah that
I am ayoseing the things Se Sent to hir
Dear husband tel hir that couldent
find him atall we hunted til nine
or ten aclock in the nite for him
and it got So dark and rand So hard
that we had to leave ther and march
back to petersburg we had no Sleepe
nor nothing to eate in 48 hours and
all was verry nare wore out tel
Sarah that I will pay her what
ever is rite for the things I got
I pade half the cost for bringing
the box I pade one dollar and 50
cens So I mus close for this time
onely I Stil reme yur love
ing husband until death
parts us god I hope will have
murcey upon us and Spar our lives to See
each other agane D Setzer to Susan Setzer