Bristol September the 15^th

 

Dear Brother

            Whe are all well but Father. he took to bleeding at his lungs on Wensday night last but it is stoped bleding now. whe have got but one letter from you since you left Fort Wayne. that was when you wrote from Louisville before you left for Boling Green. if you get this letter I want you to write write away. Mr Trego got a letter from Aaron last week. he came and told us that you have got back to Louisville again. whe got a letter from Amelia Eckley, last week She is in Fulton County, Ohio, on a visit She will stay two or three months. Isaac and Levi Eckley have enlisted they were / at Toledo when Amelia wrote Jerry Belles got a letter from John on Saturday. if you get this i want you to write write away and let me know how you are geting along I must quit writing for thi time for I want to send it of to day. Father says he will write a fiew lines to you,

                                                                                                Edward Albright

 

Dear son I will try to write a few lines. I have been bleding for 5 days & nights & had very much pain in my chest, but I am better Father Zimerman is here with me & we can help oneother get better he was sick but is better the rest are all well

 

Now Wm doo write soon & often I must stop

                                                                        Wm Albright

 

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