Goldsboro N.C April 5th /65
Dear Wife and Children I am well
and hope this will find you all
well Likewise I Wrote you the
Day before yesterday and I told
you in that I had not Got aney
Letters from you Since the 2nd
mail after I Got hear but that
I Exspected One the next Day
my Prediction Come to Pass last
Knight I Got one Dated the 15 of
march and was not Post Marked
till the 23 of March 8 Days after
it was Written I Dont no what to
make of that I was Glad to hear
that Ira was their in the Shugar
Boosh and when you Write again
tell me how mutch you have for
your Shair and So on and I was
Glad to hear that George was Going
to Mr Williamses to work for it is a 
Good Place and I hope he has gon
and that he is Still their and if he
is tell him by all means to

Stay their and be a Good Boy
I had Rather he woould work
their for 10 Dollars a month then
Some Other Plases for 20 as Mr
Williams is a Strictly onest man
and I hope to God he is their and
will be a Good Boy and Stay
their I am Likewise Glad to hear
that the Cattel Look well and I
Shall begin to think Frank is Getting
to be a man if he takes Sutch Good
Care of things in Pa absence you
Said Aunt Peggyann wanted to Get
her a Small Piece of Land if She Could
I would be very Glad if she Could
get a piece near Ower Place as I
woould be happy to have her near
me for as my Oldest Sister I have
allways looked uppon her as not
Only an Older sister but a Good
Counseler and if She Dont find 
a place before I Get home (if i Ever
Doo) I will Give her all the Assistance
in my Power if i have Good Luck

and Get home I want to try and
By a piece of that Land Acrost
the Road if it is not Gon and
maby we can manage to Get
Some for her at the Same time
I have had a Letter from Brother
Daniel Since I have Got hear I have
had 2 or 3 from him Since you
Sent me that One from home he
Complains that he has Written to
the Friends in Michigan but thay
wont answer his Letters he feels very
Bad about it their is a Rumer hear
to day that their has been a Steem
Ship lost between William Wilming
-ton and N.y. with a Large num
-ber of Discharged Soldiers aloud
from Fayetteville and that they
wore all Lost I am afraid George
and Charly wore on the Boat I
all most fier it is So O God I hope
not for the Sake of their Old Mother
is nothing Else we have not
Drawen aney Pay yet and I begin

to think that we Shant Draw
aney hear as the Reumer is now
that we march from hear in
a fiew Days and I think we will
by the Appearance of things I Dont
know whear we Shall Go to from hear
but think it will Be Richmond
and if we Doo that will be the End
of the Southeran Confederosy but
I must Close by Bidding Mother
Hatty Frankey and Georgy David
and Charly Etty and Harry
and my Dear Little maty Good
By Give all of my friends my Best
respects Deek Denio is well 
and Sends his Respects Mr Porter
Sends he Says his Respects to
Mrs Dunckel and Mrs Price and
All of the Children also he
Calculates on haveing a Good
time with the Boys and the
Children when we Get home
he is a funny Old fellow I tell you
but good by wife and Hatty  OG Dunckel