Ship Island Miss Aug 25/63

 

My Dear Mother

it is with the gratest of pleasure for me to set down to day for to inform you of my health which is very good at present and I am in hope that these few lines will find you all enjoying good health and taking all the comfort of life mother in smoking your pipe &c But my dear mother I feel very proud of thinking that my life is spare up to this present time and have seen so many of my Co put down in a minit, and I am save yet But our Reg't is at Ship Island But how long that / we shall stay I cant tell any thing about it a tall But by the way Mother when I was paid of I had a chance to send you twenty dollars by Saml Atkinson for he has gone home to get some Concript to bring them out here But my health ant so good as it was last sumer because we are all wore and beat out by traviling through the country in La But the weather is very hot at present here But I want you to write to me as often as you can for I want to here from you as often as I can I ant receive any letter for some time not yet / But give my love to all acquiring friends in Hollis But be sure and take the most of it your self mother

 

But I must come to a close for this time

 

Please to direct your letters to New Orleans La

 

This is From Your

Son John Brown Esq

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