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                                                                                    Camp Lee

                                                                                                Kalamazoo Dec 17^th/63

 

Dear Sister

                        I take the pen to write to you for the last time from Camp Lee I am very sorey that I cannot come and see you and the folks before I leave but it cannot be otherwise just now you nead not worrow about me for I am all wright I have resived fourty dollars of my pay and I used it allmost all up for my comfort and you may bleave me that I am very comfortable I have bought a company record to day with all the oficers names in it you will find my name among the corpal list the record is / of the company that I am in only I have left it at John Mckee’s furniture store two doors north of Rice & Allen’s paint shop my sachel is thare too with my likeness in it you can take the small one and put your likeness in the saim case the other one is for Father & Mother thare is two solder’s caps in it the one with the brass sabers on is for Fread and the other is for Henry I will inclose a small note in this letter to give John Mckee or his Brother thay are allways in the store one or the other, whoever gose for the sachel will / give Mckee the note wich I have inclosed the sooner you git the sachel the better give my best respects to Louis Zarndt and all inquiren friends

 

my love to home so I will bid you good day

 

            from your cincere Brother

                                    William J Bartell

                                    Co. I. 11^th. Mich. Vol. Cavalry

                                    Camp. Lee

                                    Kalamazoo, Mich

 

you nead not write to me

until I write to you again

 

When this crull war is over

Praing that we meet again

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