March 30th 1865
Camp near mount olive North Carolina
Dear wife and children
I improve this oppor
tunity after a raid
 of 2 months to write
a few lines to you
to inform you that
I am alive and in
first rate health
at present hoping
this will find you
all well and all
right I got a letter

from you and jenne
a day or 2 ago fated
Jan 31sr another from 
jennette dated feb 
17th we are here on
the wilmington and
petersburg railroad
we have gone into camp for
to rest as [hell?] and
we drew some new
Clothes to day since
we left savannah
jan 28th we had some
pretty rough times
on one march
and some [f?] battles
I saw [Josephus?][petese]	
[unintelligible] and [hod?]
June first at

sisters from 35 miles
from savannah
stayed all night
with them there
they come with our
army all the way
through and I saw
[Seaf?] and [hod?]
days ago but [petese?]
was missing the last
time I saw [Seaf?]
we had a fight
2 days before that
and the rebs charged
[] regiment and
they were obliged
to run I saw [Seaf?] and
[hod?] 2 days after and
they were all right