Dear brother

I will now tell you that I am well and a doing the best I can and I hope that those fiew lines ma find you able to knock around well brother I ant got much to write but I though I must write a little to you as I am a going a way to stay a week or two and I thought that maby I would not get to write untill I came back home I am a going out to georg Castners to work a while but I will try to write to you once a week mother smiths folks are all nearly all sick I rote to Jim how they are so it ant any use to repeat it as you will see his letter O Jake I would love to see you so well but that cant be this lonly sabbath day / but I hope that that you will all be at home a gants harvest there will is strang talk of peace now O I do hope that there never will be an other battle fought but I doant want you to think that I am a butternut for I ant I dont want any thing but an honorbel peace and I would be glad how soon that happy day would come Jake the butternuts is a comming to they think that peace will be made next summer uncle Gust ses he dont see why the south dont give up for thay no that they will hav to so you see he is a rite smart better than he use to be for they use to say that the south never would sub dievde but that kind of talk has plaid out and butternut ism will be plaid out a ganst you get home well brother I will close for this time I want you to write me a great long letter as soon as you get able be a good boy and I hope and that god will spair youre life to return home safe a gan I will say fare well write soon and oftin J A M to a loving brother

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