Ohio Post Office Bureau County Illino

                                                                                                May the 12^th 1861

 

                                                                                                            Dear niece

I take this opportunity to inform you that I am well at present and I hope that these few lines will find you enjoying the same blessing. I would like to know what is the reason that you dont write to me any more for this is the third letter that I have wrote to you since I got a letter from you and if you think worth while to write to me I want you to write as soon as you get this letter for if I cant hear anymore from home I will join the army and then perhaps I will never hear from home and perhaps you will never hear from me again of being in the the land of the living

 

There is a great excitement out here about the war and almost all the boys have enlisted

 

            I have nothing more to write at present

 

                        I remain your sincere              Uncle

                                                            Daniel Dickson

 

PS If you dont think it worth while to write to me I will you bid you all farewell

                                                                                                            Daniel Dickson

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