In Camp Near Fayetteville North Carolina
Cape Fier River March 12th 1865
Dear and Affectionate Wife and Children
once more am i permitted to Write you
a fiew Lines i Dont no as you Can Read
them as i am youseing my knee for a Desk
but i hope you can i am blessed with
my usual Degree of Good health but
am all most Woren out with marching
and bad Roads and i Cant Write mutch
to Day if we Stay hear aney Length of time
you will hear from me more fully but
i hope this will find you all well
and Doing well when you Write tell me
how the Cattle Look and So on we are
on the Cape Fier River North Carolina
as you will preseive by the heading of
this Letter we have been about one
month in the State of South Carolina
and Wo to that State but i cannot
write you the Details in this So i wont
Say aney thing about it till next time

i do not no as we will Get aney mail
hear but if we Doo i will write you i
have not Received aney Letters from you
of corse but i hope you i Shall have
Some mail from you before we Leave hear
as i know we Shant Stay hear Long and
whear we Shall Go to from hear God
and Genl Sherman only know and
thay wont tell so i Cant tell you
of corse tell me when you Write what
you are doing With the Shugar Boosh and
wheather Ira workes it or not Give my 
Love to all of the Friends and Neighbors
and when you Write tell me all the news
and if you Dont answer this till after
Town meeting you must tell me who
is Elected Supervisor and now i hope
again this will find you all well
and Hatty i hope you and Harry
are boath well and i hope you
have heard from Lewis before this
and in fact i hope he is at home

and Enjoying himself O how i
woould Like to be able to come home
and See you all we have not Drawn 
aney Pay yet thay Owed us Six month
Pay the first Day of this month but
i Dont hear aney thing about Pay So
i Dont no when we will Get aney
i hope you are not out of money for
i have none to Send you i Dont no
as i Shall be be able to Get enough
to by my tobacco with as tobacco
is awful high hear i have paid out 
$4.90 in one month for tobacco So you
can judge how high it is if you have
only got money Enough to Get along
with till i Draw my Pay i will be
Glad George and Charles Price are 
with us hear yet there is Some
talk that thay will Get their Discha
-rge hear i hope thay will as the Boys
have been in over their time 2 months
Hatty i want you to Enquire at

the Post Office and if there is aney
 Letters Come their for George Price you
take them Out and take Good Care
of them for him till he Comes as he
is afraid Some wone will Get them
and Open them the Letters he Exspec
-ts there are Business Letters and i am
Some what Conserned in them and Dont
want aney one to Get them that will 
Open them as i Exspect thay may have
my State Bounty in them as i Let
a Loyer in Detroit Colect it and
told him to Send it to George Price
to locke as George Exspected to be home
long before this but i must Close
So with maney Blessings and Prairs
for your futeuer happiness i Remain
your husband & father
To Elizabeth & Hatty    OG Dunckel

Direct to Co K 14th Mich Inft 1st
Brig 2nd Dir 14th Al Washington Citty
D.b.