Camp near Jefferson Sep the 10^th 1863

 

Dear Brother &Sister

                                                I received your letter last evening and i am glad to hear yous are all well as this leaves me in at present thank god for it i have been very sick with the ague but i am recovered again our Brigade is doing Picket duty out at Amesville and the bushwhackers gives us a call once in a while but they dont stop long the mountains is full of them especially after night

I am glad to hear that Ferdinand got clear of the draft and John got clear of it too i was looking in the New York Herald but i did not see any of your names there upon the list

 

i expect the riots is finished in new york there is too much soldiers there for them

over 

 

I got several letters from John this last two months he did not say any thing of Pat losing a child he said you were living in the same place yet he says he quit drinking and he is going to be steady I told him i thought it was most time he wanted to know if i thought about that horse yet i sent him word i would send him one in the next letter

 

i have not much mor to write at present i am glad you got the $25 i sent

 

i received them stamps and is much obliged to you

                       

Direct your letter as before

 

no more at present from your Brother

Michael Conklin

 

How are you eyebrows

                                   

Write soon again /

 

 

M^r Ferdinand Collins

580 DeKalb Ave

            Brooklyn         n.y

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