Ft Duncan Ark

Jan the 29^th 64

 

                 Dear Parents & Sisters it is with pleasure that I take my pen to write to you once more (it is rainy and thundering here this evening like it does there in the summer) it has been so long since I have heard from you that I have come to the conclusion that you have all forgotten me or disowned me I dont know which at any rate I want you to write once more and say something I should not have written this evening but I expect to go to the fort tomorrow and I have a chance to send this out we are still at Clays mill we have built us a fort and the Boys call it Ft Duncan I am well and hope these lines will find you the same I have been chopping wood to day for the mill we have very nice weather / here for the time of year the health of the Co is good Joe got a letter from John Lafever a few days ago and the boys of the 29^th were well they are at little rock it is almost night and I am on guard to night I shall have to close the last letter I got from home was in Dec and I do not intend to write any more untill I get one so if you do not write you will not hear from me for I have written every mail untill I am tired waiting but still ancious to hear from home you said you would send me the rest of those stamps and I have looked looked for them every mail but they have not come yet hoping soon to hear from

you I remain as ever yours

 

            John Reed Co B 18^th Iowa Vol

                        Inft. Ft Smith Ark

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