Camp of the 64^th N.Y. Vols.

Near Brandy Station

Virginia

 

Der Friend Mary Urs

dated of the 7^th is at hand in dues season and verry happy was I to get it and to hear that you wer usualy well and enjoing your self as well as you are. Mary I shall have to tell you the news I got a letter from you one from Em one from Mary Jane and Nett both to Gather. did you know any thing about it if you dident you can now well the news was in one that Eph I heard you was comeing home on a Furlough but dident stat what it was for and another sais Eaf I heard you was comeing home on a furlough and was agoing to be married another sais Ephraim I would like to / see you and expect according to storry that I shall before long because I heard you wer comeing out here on a Furlow and that you wer agoing to take a handsom little Wife. ha-ha I say Bulley for All. further more she said that she under-stood the Ladys name comenced with M.D. and she has got her Weding Clothes and all prepared for it. I have answerd this and in it I told her that I guessed it was all right and told her it was the firs I had heard about it and if she had got those nice things it must be for some better looking Felow than I am. told her I couldent see the point till after the War is over any how but never mind those little trifles this was Mary Jane that sais this and she done it more to have a little / fun with me than any thing else. but when we get round to thoes things guess we can settle it up with out so many outsiders. if we cant then the is time to call on them and give them their chance I shall answer Ems letter this evening I guess but we wont mind these little things any how we know our own gate from a pair of bars any how. Nett wrote that Vet and Wife was going west before long also said Edd and Lib wer going to Tidesville to live this winter. Mary tell Delila to write a line now and then and Oblige a Friend who has not forgoten her. tell the Old Lady that I am comeing down to take Tea with Her & the Old Gentleman one of those times—after the 3 years is up and things all settled 

 

Mary I will close by sending you my Love and best wishes. guess I will not tell my Dream to you now. Please write more often and longer letters and Oblige Ur Ever True Friend                                  Eph

                        To Molly

 

Mary that is verry exceptable

                                    I cannot forget you

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