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you may Direct
either to Washington
D.C. or Cincinnatta
Ohio) it makes no 
diffarance either is
          right enough

[End]

		Lebanon, Ky.
			Apr 18th 1863
	Dear Mother It has ben
some time since I have
heard from you and I
am getting some uneasy
about that money I sent
you for it is time for me
to hear from it and I hope
I shall soon Oh I do hope
this will find you in good
health for then I can be
content here but when
I know you are sick I
am uneasy and homesick
we are in town doing Provost
duty now and it seems good
to be whare we can see folks
if they are half black yes
about two thirds of the women
in town are black

Well Mother it is the same old
story you must excuse me if I dont
write a long letter today for I am
on Guard we are on Guard one
day and Patrol the next so we
are busy all the time most
then for another thing I have
no news to write as it is
some time since I have heard
from Home I hardly know
what to write. I got a letter
from Wil Shaw. yesterday he is
at Baltimore yet he thinks
he could get his discharge if
he could only get his descriptive
list it has ben sent to him
twice now but he dont get it yet
I am going to have Capt. send
it again for I want him to
get Home if possible. although
I should like to see him in
our Co. again for he makes so

much fun for us
now Mother I suppose you want 
to know how I get along and how
I content myself here in Old Kentuck
well I am doing first best at the
presant time. and I content
myself  in different ways some
times by writing and sometimes
by reading. then by watching
      thare are some right smart pretty Girls here
the girls as they pass by but now
this writing is rather a poor way
to amuse myself. when I have to 
    do all the writing but I expect
I shall get some letters soon and I 
  hope I shall hear from the money
the package contained one hundred
and twenty Dollars. $45.00 forty five
of which was mine.
    Dewitt Spaulding sent his home
and has recd an answer from
it and some others boys also 
it was sent by express

Tell Sarah I have not heard from
her in some time and wish she
would write often and not
wait for me to answer every one
for she has ten chances to my 
one to write then I have so
many to write to and I fear
they all wait for an answer
to every one but I think you
at Home aught to write
two for one  tell Freddy I have
not forgotten him but cant 
get time to write to him
  Well I see it is most time
for me to go on Post again
we have to stand two hours and 
off four for twenty four hours
and I must go and Bake some
Pancakes and eat my supper so
as to be ready now write I hope
this will find you all well
      Please except this from
your Loving Son B F Marsh
To Mrs HJ Holmes my Dear Mother

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Remember me to all of my old friends
in FentonVille.    Love to yourself  Good Bye