Providence Jany 5^th 1863

 

Col Edwin Metcalf

            3^d Rhode Island Artillery

 

Colonel

            [faded]

forwarded to [faded]

to hold my father's coffin [faded]

Quartermaster of your regiment. [faded]

 

the same I have learned that Major Rogers has been appointed Col. of the 11^th Reg. also that [faded] has lost his sister, fearing that neither the Major or Joe would be at Hilton Head when the box arrives I write to ask you if you will see to the matter when the box arrives, and that my Fathers body is sent home with some suitable person with it. I am sorry to trouble you about the matter but I know of no other way to have it attended to in case the Major and Joe should have come North.

 

Yours respectfully

[faded]

 

[verso]

 

Col. Edwin Metcalf

3^d Rhode Island Artillery

            Hilton Head

            South Carolina

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