8 By Settlement   31.49
Camp Holly Spring N.C April 23rd /65
Dear and beloved Wife and Children
I take my Pen in hand this morning
to inform you that I am well and
i hope this will find you in the Same
State of health I feel Quite happy
to Day as I think I Shall be able
to Start for home in a Short time
as we have heard that Peace is Declared
and that we are all to be Discharged
Soon I hope it is So if George has
Enlisted I Dont think he Ever will
Leave the State but I hope if he Does
he will Come to me as he will Suffer
if he Goes into a Strange Reg as he
Dont know how to take care of him
Self you have undoutedly Seen
George Prise before now as he is at
home as I have had a Letter from
him Since he Got home I Shall
Write to him to Day the Reg is all
Joyfull enough about Peace but

thay felt verry Sad the
other day when Ower Cornel Called
us out and Red the Order to us of
the Death of that Good Old man
the President of the United States
then it was that you Could have
Seen the Strong Men Shed tears
of Greaf for his untimely Death
but i must Close as I feel to
happy to Write mutch to Day I
Wrote my Last Letter before this
to you on the 9 of April and 
after I had mailed it I Got one
from you In that Letter you told
me you had Beaught a Cow I
am Glad you have Got one but
I was Surprised to hear that you
had to buy hay after I had to
Pay so mutch for kutting hay
Last Summer you wanted me
to Send you my Likeness I
will try and Send you the

[In pencil, O Dunkels farm 
was quite a large one. 2000?
Had much stock. Vida?]

Original in a fiew Days Enste
of the Likeness and See how that
will Sute you Elizabeth you
want to know if I am mad at you
I have not had aney Occasion
to be mad at you at all and
what I Wrote about Vandersen
was to Let you know that I Did
not want the man to Live at 
my house as I never Liked him
and the Word I got was that 
he was makeing it his home their
and that Peopple were talking
about it and So on but Enough 
of that when I Come home I will
tell you what I heard and whear
it come from Mr Porter is well
and is fixing himself to Come
home with me if we Get ower
Discharge he is a funney old
fellow but if I am Discharged

Down hear I shall not Go home
with the Reg from hear as Porter
and I will Go to Louisville or
Some Other Place whear thay
Keep Government horses and
Buy a Span of horses and
bring them home with us and
if we Do So we Shant be home
as Soon as Some of the Rest
by Some Days but you must
not be Scared as we Dont and
if we have to Go to Detroit to
Muster Out then we Shall 
come home from their when
the Rest Do but now Good
Buy Wife and Children
Dear for this time
             OG Dunckel
I Dont Send aney Directions
in this as you need not
Write again unless you hear
from me again  OG Dunckel