Camp Lee Nov 15  1863
		Dear Sister I
sit down to write a 
few lines this chilly
Sabbath morning to let
you know about my
health which is good
and I hope this will 
find you all enjoing the
same great blessing I
suppose we [crossed out] [will] have got
to leave here this week
some think we will stop
in Detroit but [crossed out word] tis
very uncertain when we get
started where we shall
stop I have drawn $.27.00
of my money am looking
for the balance on Monday
our Lieut says we shall
get out back pay and 

and one months pay ind
advance and I am going
to send my money home
excepting that I shall want
to take with me and I
                        pay
want father to ^ Robert
Clark and .N. [Pool?] what
I owe them and keep
the balance for his own
use. if we dont get but 
twenty seven dollars I
wont send home but ten
dollars and he can pay
Clark five dollars and
keep the other five
himself Bill Adams
and his wife are boarding
down town at the tavern
and bill is going home
if he can but I dont think
they will let him go unless
I can go to if I can not

    come home I want to
see you all at St Johns
if you can find out what
time we go through there
I wish you could have
come up here with Ann
Adams for tis quite a 
show to see us now for
our regiment is getting 
pretty well drilled it
a good deal like war

   Nov 16
   Sister Em as Ann Adams
is going home to night
I will send home twenty
five dollars and I will keep
the rest unless I see that
I dont need it and then
I will send it home
I regret very much that I
cannot come home or

see my folks before
we have to leave here
there is no knowing
when we will go but
tis likely before long for
the regiment is most all paid
off and the commanding
officer will not sign
any furloughs for no one
      Well good by for
this time give my respects 
to all enquiring friends
         if any and write
                   soon

	W N Daggett