Oct the 11 1864

 

            hart island new york harber dear father and Mother it is with grate plasure that i seet my self to pen a few lines to you to let you now that i am well at presant and hope that thes few lines will find you the same i am contented at presant and sogern gose well yet i hav heard hard news from home i have heard that Aston has gon home to god we think it is hard but god nose best and we must gave him up in the hands of god i for one feel to gave him up to god fore he can / do beter with him then i can so i gave him up to god and i hope Ann will gave him up as contented as i hav and put her trust in god for shee git my daly prar to god in her behalf and i want you shood pray for her and me for we need the prars of you all and i trust that we shal hav them i want you shood go down and see her as often as you can i sood like to see her if i cood but i can not and wood lik to see you all i do not expect to git with Ira for the company is fool and their is left seventeen of us left hear and do not no what they will do with us yet we think they will / send us in the twenty fif but do not now for surtain yet mother i wish that i was their to take dinner with you tell Elbert to be a good boy till i come home and tell him to mind his mother i heard that Euness was dead and parker had risin for prars i was glad to hear that he was trying to serve god i pittey his childern for they hav not got eny mother now but i hope that there father is goant to bee a beter man tell lucey to be a good womarn and to be faful to god in ira behalf and to remember us solgers at the throne of grace for we are all mortels bound for a neverend enden eturnity 

 

i do not think of eny thing more at presant you must excuse poor writin and poor spelling for their is so much noyes hea that a man can not think of eny thing

this from your Son

Ephraim Torrance

 

you need not write till you hear from me again

            Sho this to

            Ann my dear

            mother

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