[Penciled in on top of Scan 1] [1862?]

      Pepperell  Aug. 25th /61
      Dear Brother,
 	                 your Letter
came to hand last week
& I was very glad to hear
from you
I received a letter from
Sister Diantha, the same
Day, yours was received
all our mich friends
Were well at that time
Should your co be
orderd Home I supose
you will get a discharge
hey  well I hope you
& some others have found
out by this time that all
Southerners are not cowards
hey Ed if you had known
then as well as I do
Some of your regiment wou
ld have went into battle with 

very different thoughts
from what they did 
& not been so confident of
haveing an easy victory
god grant that this war,
may be Settled without any
more lives being lost as
blunderingly as they were
at Bull run
from your not mentioning
Emery Vances name I
have come to the conclusi
on that he has got
Well.. [how?] does the boys
stand in your company
& where is that office they
were going to give me
business of all kinds is
dead as can be here
& is likely to be for sometime
for all I can see only 
in soldiering & in that time
they cannot fill up the
regiments as fast as they
are ordered gen Butler
has come home on furlough
to raise a division of 5000
men forthwith
I have nothing new or
interesting to write about
at this time and as
I hate to write I will
Close by Stateing that
corn here looks finely & grapes
was as a general thing very good
here.. uncle Bolles has more
hay then he ever had before
haveing filled his barn
			      d
as full as it can be crowde^
give my best respects to Orrin,
Wright, Wallace, & all the
rest of Clinton county boys
& tell them to keep stiff
upper lips this geting
down in the mouth
& being homesick kills 

more men on an average
then the bullets of the enemy
the old Sixth is preparing
to take the field again
What luck. They will
have in reorganizing I
cannot tell but think it
Will be sometime before
they Will take the field
under present curcumstances
We have not yet
been paid off & I do not
See as We are ever likely
to be
	your affectionate
	Brother
		write soon, &
write all the news
all of our friends Send
Much love to you & May God keep you in
[crossed out word] his care & return you
to your friends is what
your Brother wishes
Mother Bolle's is going to write 

[Written on the right side of Scan 4]

to Jesse & as my sheet seems full I will Close

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