Camp Holly Springs NC Apr 27th /65
Dear & affectionate wife & children
it was with Pleasure I Received
your kind Letter of the 14th to Day
It found me well and I hope this
will find you the Same we wore
ordered to march at 5 Oclock this
morning but the Order was Counter
manded at 3 Oclock this morning and
So we are hear yet but how Long we
we Shall Stay hear I Dont know we
hear it Rumored that Genl Johnson
has Surrendered his Army to Sherman
Last knight and that is the Reason
that we did not march this morning
if that is So I dont know what we
Shall Do next as their is no more
Rebs hear for us to fight if Johnsons
Army has Gon up and thay will
have to Send us home or Send


S us Some Wheare Els to fight
but I hear that the Peas meashers
have all Played out but thay
will have to make Peas when thay
Cant find aney One to fight I
Got a Letter from George Price
yesterday and answerd it I Sent
it to Locke if he is not their you
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Can have the PO master Redirect^
it and Send it to him in that
I told him What to Do about
what Debts you Owed and I want
you to be Carefull about Debts
for the future I Do not Say you
have Spent it for fine Clothes but
you know that I have Sent you
one hundred and 5 dollars beside
what I Sent to George Dunckel
to Pay Debts with and if you have
Got from the Town 10 Dollars a
month or an [evening?] it is 14
months Since I left home and
that woould make One hundred

and forty Dollars from the
Town and what I Sent you One
hundren and five Dollars woould
make in all twoo hundren and
forty five Dollars and that is a
Large Sum of money and besides
i find frome George Dunckels
Letters that you owe him over
30 Dollars and you took 20 Dollars
of Hattys money to By a Cow with
and George Price sayes you took
money of hatties to help pay taxes
and Pay Interest he Did not
Say how mutch but maby 20 
Dollars and then I Sent Spencer
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5 Dollars to turn on your Account^
which will make 75 Dollars more
which will make in all three
hundred and twenty Dollars and
all you have to Show for it
is a Cow the taxes and interest
on 40 Acres of Land you Can 
See Elizabeth for your Self


that thair is a Leak Some whear
I am not finding fault but
no One man Could Stand
Sutch Exspenses and Live by
his Labour you Say you have
not Beaught aney Cloathes
So I Cant see what in the
world you can have Don with
it but I hope to be at home
before Long id God spairs my
Life and then we will try and
Get along Some how but now
I must close Hatty I think the
Prise unckel George Charged
for wintering your Sheep is
out Ragus and I think you
made a Poor Choyse to 
Choose him for a Gardiean
for Harry but I must Close
by Saying Good By to all
Direct to Washington [letting?]
DC the rest as before
to Elizabeth Dunckel OG Dunckel
and Hatty Price and all the Children