New Haven Kentucky Jan 23^th 1862

            Mrs M E Keller

 

                                                                                                                        dear wife your

letter has just come to hand this eavning. I ame always glad to heare from you and hope this letter will finde you in better healthe it gives me greate uneasyness to heare of your ill healthe people writing to me from Bluffton always say to me your family is well I ame sorry to heare studobaker has got his hog pen so close to our house I have just received a letter from W Covert this eavning he says he has paide you nothing as yet for that mare he bought of me he says he thinks he ought not pay full price for her as she was not sound you see him and ask him how mutch he thinks he ought to pay for her and let me know I received a letter from Mcfaden he says he lets you have money when you want it. Get Mr Angle to trim our grape vines and Aple trees at the propper time and you pay him for it and enjoy your selfe the best you can I think it will not be long untill I can go home and the war will be over the Rebels are geting whiped all the time / it is the opinion of evry one here that it must soone come to a close I ame well and hearty as I have beene for several years to morrow morning I take my Company out on picket guard and will be gone one day and night W Buckels stays in camp and takes care of my Baggage while I ame gone we are kept very buisy I do not get to Idle a halfe houre in a day we drill all day and have a Military School at night for about two hours. evry thing here is done up acording to Military order three of our Boys have gone home on a furlough for a short time as they have been very sick they have gone for the purpose of trying to improve there healthe one lives close to Bluffton his name is singleton some of our Boys have had a harde time of it West Aspinwall is well and gets alonge very well poore olde Bull I have no doubt but what he is lonesome. tell the Boys to be good Boys tell Ella father will be home before a greate while my love to you all write soone

                                                                                    Sam J Keller

 

N B write soone again

direct as you did last time /

 

I have received but one number of the Banner write to me all the peiticulars what is going on in town let Ellen do part of the writing I can reade your writing first rate and if Harter writes to you and how the church is progressing in Bluffton and if olde Miss Wandle is very savage

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