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Enclosed.
  A. Ferdon to Mary Ferdon

		Nashville Tennisee
		Wednesday Dec /'62
	Dear sister I take this
oppertunity to inform
you that I am well
excepting this lame back
and hip but I think
that it will get better
by the time that
spring and opens but
it may never get well
I wish that I could be at
home be at home until
I got cured up but it
may be that I shall
if the doctors see that
I am not fit for duty
and am not like ly to be
they will discharge
me and send me home

but dont look for me
until you see me for
if I get strong enough they 
will set me to nursing
and if I can stand it
I shall be kept at it but
I dont think that my
back will ever get
sound again but I hope
that it will [illegible in original]
Mary I want you to get
the folks there to send
me a box of things to eat
fo my apetite is not good
you can send a box by
railroad now you can
sent it by express make
the box nearly square and
send some preserves and
honey and pickels some
onions cook some sausage

and send them and as
much butter as you
can tell Mother to send
me a towel and some
apple pies if the weather
is cold enough to freeze
them and send such oth
er as you think of you
had better not send
any dried fruit for I
have no way to cook them
make a base of thin lum
ber and dont have it when
full weigh over one
hundred pounds and send
it by express to me
    to Nashville Tennisee
you had better pay the
 express charges there
a for I may not be here
 when it comes and if

the the charges is paid
it will be sent to me
and tell me howe much
it is and I will send
the money back to you
remember dont send
it to the regament
nor to the Company
but to me Nashville
Tennisee send it as
soon as you get this
for I may get better
and go to the regiment
and also I need it
  write as soon or before
you send it that I
may know that it is
a coming and go and get it
Direct your letters to hospi
tle House third Ward
	Andrew Ferdon