Austinburg Ohio

October 31^st /65

                                                                                                          

Friend Dwight

                        Well old Boy how do you come on way down in Georgia now raceing around after hood I presume well I have got through with my soldier scrape & I hope you will be before long I went in to atlanta & staid there about a week before I left I was musterd out the 9^th of september left Atlanta on sunday & got home the next saturday Afternoon I dont see but what it is the same old Austinburg it allways was but there is a good many / Boys gone that was here thee years ago some of them never to return Lew Mathews I presume you knew him went in to a new regt that was getting up in Cleveland he was taken sick soon after they left some where in kentuckey I think his father went to see him but he died before he got there

 

so it goes some will die & others will live it through & them that do will never regret that they went Pa he got home about a week before I did but he has been sick so much he cant stand it to work much we are building this fall & it goes off pretty slow these Old Soldiers dont [?] things very much I want to get ready to go to school this winter I intend to go a year if I can if I am ever going to school I want to commence pretty soon & I have been in / the army long enough to see the kneed need of it I have had a dozen chances to hire out since I came home but I tell them I cant see it I can find all the work I want to do at home

 

Tom came home all right he has been staying to Ed Frenches a spell while he went East they have been having Mass Meetings around here but the copperheads keep pretty mute I suppose we can tell in a week or so whether Old Abe is good for another 4 years or not

 

Your folks are all right but have not heard from you in a good while I dont know as I shall direct this right if I dont you can rectify it news is scarser than hens teeth so & the fire has gone out & it is almighty cold so I guess I will go to bed I wich / wish you was here to go with me hopeing that day will soon come I remain your

 

Old friend & well wisher

                                    Ed

 

Write soon & often to

 

                                                Edgar. O. Miller

                                                            Box 32  Austinburg

                                                                                    Ashtabula Co

                                                                                                Ohio

 

 

T.D.R.

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