Em A Daggett		[Penciled in] [1863?]
	Stafford CO Va

	        April the 21/1863
     Dear Cousin Em
	                 I will now write
once more to let you know of my 
health which is good at present
and hope this may find you all
enjoying the same great blessing
I wrote you a long time ago
but have never received any answer
but I dont know as that makes aney
difference. I dont know whether 
my letter got miscarried or whether
you have forgotten me if you have
forgotten me this will bring me to
your memory if you get it
our regiment are getting pay to
day we expect to march for
some place before long and God
onely knows whare we have had
eight days rations dealt out to us
                                                                go
and have got to cary the same when we ^

I received a letter from
Prudence also one from Jane
not long since the was all well
thare then I believe some of our
friends in York State are sick
[crossed out word] uncle Ephraim Dennis wife also
one of his boys are very sick
Granmother Dennis is dead she
Died the 18 of this month
Father and family are well
I havent heard from Reuben
since you write me last.
we are having good time down here
in Dixie now but probably they
wont last long or at least I think
not for when we get started on
a march with eight days rations
on our backs with the rest of
our [illegible] it wont be very nice
business I guess but thirty days
after to day and then my time
will be out and then I shall
retire to civil life

    although soldiering pays pretty
  well –Greenbacks are a plenty
here to day as chips in a chip [yard?]
I shall go home when my time is
out and see the folks and then
if I feel it my duty to enlist
again I shall come back to the army
Soldiering is not so bad as some
men tries to make out although
a soldier sees some pretty hard
times he has to endure some privations
and hardships but a true lover of
his country can endure a great deal
to restor the union and save the old
                                                 flag
Well I guess if you can read this you
will have a long job so I will close
   Except this from your cousin G. W. D.
	     write soon for I am [crossed out word]
always glad to hear from my cousin
                        Good night Em
             Give my love to Willard

to Remove Freckles, an ounce of Alum
                                                                     ( [water?]
and an ounce of Lemon juice. in a pint of rose ^
Blacken the Eyelashes)
Juice of Elderberries, burnt cork and cloves
burnt at the candle) or a stick of India Ink
	                    is the best of All
				Em A Daggett