Dear Father and Mother

I now sit down to write you a few lines to let you no that I am well and hope these few lines may find you all the same I got a letter from you the other day and you said that Jo had been thrown of the hourse and his head and neck hurt I was very sory to hear of his bad luck but I hope it will be better against you get this letter I am sorry to tell you about henry but I will commence

 

the morning we started on the march from the station Henry said he did not feel well so he went to the doctors and he gave him 2 pills which he took and then / and then started with us all day and that night me and him struck our tents and went to bed the next morning when we got a wake we found it a raining and henry was better and he marched all that day with us and till we stopped where we now are and then we fixed up our house wher I now live last monday Henry went to the hospittle and on tuesday I went out on picket and on wensday I came in and went to see henry and asked him how he felt and he said not any better then I went back to my tent and rote a letter to send home to tell you the letter would not go out till the next morning and then I went back to see harry and the / doctor said he was wors and then I staid with him till about 8 Oclock when he died

 

so I had no chance to send you a letter that he was bad

 

when he went to the hospittle the doctor said he had a cold and would be better in a day or so so I was with him till he died he did not say a word a bout home or his folks he seemed to die very easy

 

I then went to the captain and told him that I wanted him sent home as quick as he could get him of so he went an seen the curnell and told him that I wanted him sent home so he told the captain to get an ambulance and take him down to the landing and get a coffin and have him /

                                                           

May 21 1842               Recvd feb 4

Jan   25 1863

 

and have him sent right on home he had just drawn 35 dol and 95 cts and he had spent 5½ dols and a half for shirts and paid some of his small debts and then he had 30 dols and a ½ left which the captain took to pay for sending him home which cost just 30 dolars

 

you can show this to uncle Jo and tell him I can sell his boots for him if he is willing for we cant send them home he has 2 or 3 shirts and 2 or 3 pairs of stockings to which I have got washed and I have got his pistol and his paper and envelopes which uncle Jo sent to him I have just got a letter for him from Nicholas 

 

and it had 25 cts in it and I will send it right back and you can give it to uncle Jo again pap when you get this letter you can go to doylestown bank and get my money which I sent by express I sent 22 dolars there we got 2 months wages which is 26 dols

 

I have just received a letter from mother she said she got my likeness and it looked like me more than I was poor and looked half worn out but she is very much mistaken for I can eat more than I ever did before and am as fat as / I can be I was waid to day and waid 166 lbs and when I left home I waid 143 lbs so you can see that I hant very poor

 

tell mother that I just put on the jacket she made and sent me on the hights I put it on yesterday for the first and it fits me first rate we had a fine snow here the other day it was about 8 inches deep and would a been over a foot if it had a laid but it was too mudy that it did not lay at first I was glad when I seen it a snowing for I knew that it would make the roads so bad that the army cant move for several weeks so I think we will stay here for a while 

 

I must now stop and go and get my supper so you must write soon and tell me how Jo is so good night

 

from your son will to his

Father and Mother

           

please write soon

           

so good buy all

 

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