Philadelphia Sep 26^th/62

 

Dear Sister

                        I take my pen in hand to write these few lines to you hopeing to find you and your family in good health i am getting better every day but it will be a little while before i can go to my Regiment yet you mentioned in your last that your eldest girl was sick i am very sorry for it but i hope she will soon recover it is the Diarehae or Disentary that i have i had a purty good spell of it now for over three months i think i never will be as stout as i was before i am not sick to bed with it i can walk around / i will ask a furlough of of the Doctor but he will only give one for five days and that would be no use but i will try and get one any how let me know how is John getting along when you write

 

            i have nothing much to write at present let me know how is Mary and Jane getting along and the family

 

No more at present from

your Affectionate Brother

Michael Conklin

 

Write soon again

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