June 24^th 1864

                                                                                                            Rock Island Ill

 

Dear Father

                        your letter of the seventeenth of this month cam to hand on the twenty second I was sorry to hear that Clinton was not well but hope that he will bee well soon this leaves me enjoying a reasonable portion of health I hav got the money ($5) that you sent I got it in the evening after I wrote my laste. the Mr Stoaks that you spoke of is in Barracks N^o 37 I do not know whether he got his cloths or not I will see him in a few days and tell him to wright. I am very anxious to come home but do not know that I ever shall you neede not come to see me just yet I do not think thare woould bee any sattisfaction in such a trip to eather of us. but if you can get me out at any time I will bee more than glad to come home and live with you the balance of my days tell Theodosia that she is very mutch mistaken about my forgetting her if I was to live to bee one hundred years old and never see any of you again that I never would forget the day that I left and how mutch Theodosia was concerned May an all wise Providence Direct you all in the ways of Rightiousness is the prare of

                                    Your Son         Wesley H Frey

 

P. S. Your letters come one evry Three weeaks WHF

 

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M^r Thomas J Frey

            Clarksvill

Care of Dr John Crouch          Tennessee

 

[in another hand]

December 11^th 1864

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