No 7                [Penciled in] [1862?]

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Joe Gilles is getting quite smart again

   Camp Ellabishop Nov 16 
Dear Sister Emma
        Good Morning
how do you do this morning
I am well. Jerry says if
you see any of his folks
tell them that he is sick
so he cannot write he has
chills evry other day (and fever)
                                          d
he is so that he is up roun^
evry day kind of ague I
guess. I was going to send
                         with Charlies
alittle in a letter ^   that he
was going to send by Hank
Chatfields wife but she
is not going to start home
until Wednesday so I will
write some more and send
it by mail we have had
company inspection of arms
                              fault with evry gun
the orderly found.^     I am
very sorry to hear that  your

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this morning

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[illegible] is dead and his father is 
                                                  here

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he died last wednesday night with a fever

cough is worse again
I was in hopes that you
was getting well. but by
all means stay home
from school if it will
make you any worse to go
Charlie told me that
you was going to stay at
Wms this winter. for my
sake by try and be careful
of yourself. for you are
all that I have to live
for you know. you must
not worry about me for
                                         ter
time goes a great deal fas^
with me than it does with
you at home for here there
is so much going on [crossed out] [here]
evry day that we dont
mind the time as you
do there. The night of the
13th I got a letter from 
you and I am bound not
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tell our folks that John Brooks.

get very much in debt
if I possibly can help
it last night I got a paper in
                                     d
it am very much oblige^ 
to you for it. it filled my 
box half full I had got
entirely out when the folks
send things for the boys
the stuff that will do
the boys most good
is butter for it makes
                                       d
hard crackers taste a goo^
deal better. Please tell E.J.
that the next time she
sends me any thing I
would rather she would
not send it in company
with jays for you know that
he is a curious kind of a 
fellow but I shal be very
much obliged let it come
as it will It is quite a 
joke on Lucys cough wasent
it. bad that you did not
mean to tell me of it your
pen scratched it off before
you thought dident it
I do not blame you for
not wanting to go off with
Albert and should not
go if I was in your place
if I did not want to let
who would talk about
                                          when
it. [crossed out] [if] ^  all the rest of the
                                   you
folks are against you ^  can
go to your sister Emma.J.
                  friend
and find a ^  and a true one
to she has been a good sister
to me. and will be a 
true friend to you if you
trust her. and Clark will be 
another. about Jays religion
                other
if his M^[crossed out] [ichig] could have been
in hearing of him the other
night when that box came
I guess that she would have
thought that he had experienced
                                                          ent
religion. but I must stop for the pres^
so good bye with a 

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kiss