Sunday August the 28^th 1864

                                                                                                Rock Island Ill. B.K 20

 

Dear Brother

                        I recieved your letter of the seventeenth last monday and was glad to learn that you wer doing well I feared very muth mutch that you wer dangerously hurt though your arm was seriously ingered I hope that you will soon bee well you must bee carfull how you ride a wilde horse with and old Bridle this morning is clear and a little inclined to bee cool wee have had plenty of raine hear this summer the result of which is that wee are blessed with plenty of vegetables since commencing to wright I have recieved a letter from pa dated the twentieth he says you have not got the rings that I sent I have inquiered of the man that has charge of such things and in whose charge I intrusted mine he says that they wer Expressed and left hear sometime ago I never paide for Expressing he tolde me that it was not nesesary that you would pay for them and that would do as well I can only hope that you will get them somtime tell pa that my Boots will last this winter he must send me a par of half soles and heel taps and I can make them new again if my cloths are ready send them immediately for I will soon nead them send a list of what you send on the Box ma must send a few Onions I am enjoying splendid health I am truly thankfull to learn from your letters that you all enjoy the same Blessing for the presant I will Close I will awnswer Molys letter next sunday

 

                                                            Remember me to ma and all the Children

                                                                        Allso to Mary she must stay at home

 

                                    Your Brother Untill Death

                                                                        Wesley. H. Frey

 

Charly Gardner has returned from Hospittal well

 

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M^r L. P. Frey

            Clarksvill.

                        Tenn

 

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August 28^th 1864

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