Sailsbury NC /7 /7 1862 [July 7, 1862]
Dear
Wife I take my pen
hand to drope you a lines to
let you knoo that I landed
to Sailsbury Sunday
morning a bout half
past one Saft as
a Juge and went to meeting
in Saisbury and Say a
good maney popel thar and
the yankeys ar all gone
some five or six thay are the
cooks and tha have drod
our cloths tha boys drod
for me while I was at
home and tha was glad
see me come back and tha
ar five comney heare yet
we dont knoo when we
will leve heare mabey
in a feu days and mabey
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not in a gwod while it
on surtin James seys tan [1]
worth while to try to
hier a substut
for tha wont resive him
and I think mabey we
will git to come home
before we go to ritchman
James [2] is on gard noo
and to tell catherine [3]
I wold like to shuck
her hand whar I say her
last and I wont
Wilis to come d
as sone as he can if we
stay heare I bring my
leter to a clos by ask
ing you to ancer this
swon Dear Wife
Phebe spainho[??]
Phebe Spainhord