[Separate note with letter]

Mother there is so many
that have lost their pay
by [sending?] it by mail
that I wont send it
yet unless you kneed 
it from Alvah
      this is thre days
later from Alvah

Lebanon, Ky.
		 Apr 13th 1863
	Dear Bro, I Recd your
welcome letter yesterday and
was happy to hear from you
again I am glad your
  health is good as for me
mine is what you may call
Bulley. never better. I am
           by 10 lbs
heavier  than I ever was
before. I think it is a
healthier Country here
we have done some [tall?]
traveling since I last wrote
you but we came out the
way by water and Railroad
we are at a very Plesant little
town in Kentuckey now
every thing goes off plesent
so far not much duty to do
and only two drills a day

and I think we shall [stop?]
here some time unless the
rebs make a dash into
Kentuckey some whare for it
is our business to Keep
them out of Ky. we are
under command of
Burnside gain and if
the rebs will let us be we
shall have good times
    our Captn is Provost Marshal
of the town we wer Paid at 
Louis Ville Ky. and I have sent
home forty five Dollars. I
was oweing ‘some in the
Co so I could not send
as much as I wanted to
as for Mail we wer about
three weeks without any in
our travel but it comes all
right now and I get good
news from Home

as for Mary J. I have not
had a letter from her in
some time for I have not
had time to answer hers
I have a good deal of writing
to do for I get letters from
so many different ones
I hear from Ed. now and then
but not any from Augustus
Mother says Ed has not sent
Home any money yet but
Augustus has.
    and now for something else
well I suppose you would like
to know what kind of
a Country Old Ky. is well
I like it better than any
state I have bin in yet
it looks more like home
besides thare is some mighty
Pretty Girls here I went to church
yesterday and saw some of them

one of them lives just out of
town alittle way closeby. one
of our Picket Post the last 
time I was on Picket I went
to her House and had a fine
old chat with her and her
Mother they are nice folks
Now Alvah you must
tell the Boys of the 7th I am
all right and wish them well
    I hope we shall get 
around togather again
you must write often
    to Mother and cheer her
all you can. write to me
again soon  Yours in [love?]
as a Brother Benj F. Marsh
To Alvah H Marsh    Direct to
  B.F. Marsh  Co. G. 8th Mich Inft
		Cincinnatta Ohio
instead of Washington, DC    Good Bye

[Written on Side of Scan 5]

our Boys all call me B. Frank Marsh