Chattanooga Sept 21 1864
Dear and Affectionate Wife and Children
again to day i take Pen in hand to
address you i am well and hope this
will find you the same i Wrote you
yesterday that we were Going to leave
hear and i did not no whear i should 
be sent to we broke up ower tent Last 
nite and their is no one in it but the 
Other nurse and myself and we
should Probably have been Ordered
off before now only it has Rained
all day like fury and it has not stoped
yet but i Exspect to be Sent to my
reg perhaps to morrow tell Frank that
as he has been a Good Boy and Worked
So hard this Summer his Father
feels Proud of him and i want him to
do the Best he can for his old mMther
and Brother and Sisters untill i 
come home and i will reward 

him for it if i never leve to get home
God will reward him for the Same
he must Do as he thinks Best about
Pulling in that Peace to Wheat this fall
if he has not allready Don it tell him
i want him to be Carefull and not
turn aney thing in to the Orchard
that will brouse the fruit trees
and to be Carefull of them and in your
next letter i want you to tell me how
the trees get alonf and Wheather thay 
have growed aney this Summer or
not tell mother Hatty that she must
not think so hard she will kill her
Self if she does that us what makes
her leg so mutch worse i think
i am so Sorry that Little maty has 
got the ague and Poor David he
has always got to have it i believe
 cant you get something to Brake it
up on him i want you mother to
take good care of him till Pa come

home so he can see how his little
man David has growed  but you say
Charly is as fat as a Pig i will
Shake Some of the fat off of him when
i come home i tell you me Charly
and [after?] Etty and Harry too i
will you little Raskels you i
will send a Book to Day that
is cauld Nicks Way and it may
do you to pass away an idle ower with
and then it will Pleas the Children
when you are through with it Give
my love to Grand Father and Noah
i have always mentioned them in my
Letters to George but he has never ment
-ioned them to me in his tell them
i shall write to them as soon as 
i get to whare u shall stop so i
can tell them whare to direct to
give me kind Love to Aunt
Peggy [illegible in original] and mary if you see
them tell them i would Like to

from them and i do most
[illegible in original] with maty
in her Great loss and may God
Bless and Watch Over her is the
Sinsear Wish of her unckel but
i will have to Close soon but
before i do so i want you to Say
to you that i want you to Write
to me and tell me What unckel
George is dooing and Wheather
he went to Canada or not and
how Bad he was scared and so
on you will no what i mean
when you See his letter that i
Sent you but Dont say aney thing
about it so he hears of it again
till Come home and now Mother
and Hatty and all of the
Children good by for this
time and may God Bless
you for Ever
                   O.G. Dunckel
To Elizabeth Dunckel
Hatty Price and all