When you Read this letter you must read it
according to the number of pages as i
made a mistake in writing on the rong
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    Chattanooga July 16th 1864                                           1
Dear And affectionate Wife and Children once more by the
kindness of an all Wise God i am permitted to Pen you those
fiew Lines to Let you no that i am yet in the Land of
the Living although i am yet Sick at the Hospitle to Day
i have Come to See George Price it is about one mile from whear
i Stay and it tired me almost out and as Soon as i Write
this i Shall have to Go back and that will tire me out entirlly 
i Exspect but i hope this will find you all and Douing 
Well i got George Price to Write to you when i first Come hear
i hope you Got it he Wrote one to George Dunckel too he Sent
me 25 Dollars of that Money that Stevenson Paid into George
Dunckels hands and i wanted Brother George to Pay Martha
Some on the Stears out it Pay Stevenson what Little you
owe him on the Roof yet and Save Som to Get the
Clover Cut you will have to hire Some one to Cut it
as the Boys Cant Do it and i want it Don in Season i had
Geroge Price Write to Brother George and have him See Pratt
and See wheather you or him Cant Draw my State
Bounty without my Signeing it over or if i have to Sine
it over then have Pratt make out the papers send them to me
and i will Signe them and Send Back the Sertificate So
you or him Can Draw the $100 Dollars So as to help your
Self with as i Dont no when i Shall Draw aney Pay you must 
Show this Letter to Brother George so he will no what to
Do as i Cant Write to Boath you and him to Day

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as i made a mistake and Got on the Rong Page
When i first turned over So i will Write a Little
more you will find the Pages numbered as i Wrote
them and So i will begin with asking you how you
Get along and how the Crops look and how the Stear
-s look and wheather you are agoing  to have aney fruit
in Michigan this Season and wheather you had aney
[courants?] and if you are going to have aney Plumbs this
year and wheather aney of the apple trees blowed out
this year or not and and tell me how Frank Gets
along and how George behaves now and how David
and Charly Gets along and in fact all of the little
ones and how the Neighbours all Get along and all
the news Generaly and then tell me what the People
up north think about the War Comeing to a Close
this next Winter we all think Down hear that it
will close this Fall or winter and now Wife and
Harriet Receive my Love as i must Close as i
am very tiard so good by for this time
                                           OG Dunckel
                                         To Elizabeth Dunckel 
                                         Harriet Dunckel Price
                                         Franklin Dunckel
                                         George Dunckel
                                         David Dunckel
                                         Charles Dunckel
                                         Esther Dunckel
                                         Harry Price & Maty Dunckel

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i will try and Write to him in a fiew Days if this
Scrape Dont pull me Down again i have Borrowed
some money from George Price hear for my owne youse
as a Sick man Cant well Get along hear without money
and now as i am Geting tired Writing i Shall Soon
have to Quit George Price has been a Brother to me
Since i have been in this Place and if he Ever Comes
back to locke before i Do i want you to tell him
to make your house his home when Ever he will for
the Kindness he Showed me hear and now Dear Wife
the Last Letter i have Received from home was i think
Dates the 28 of May i got one from George Dated the
Same Day and i want you to Write often if you Cant
then Get Some [one else to write?] for you you had
better Direct your Letters hear to George Price
until you hear from me again you have Got
his address So i wont Put it Down hear and if i
Leave hear before i Get aney Letters George will Send
them after me as he will no Whare i am and now Dear
Wife and Children be Chearfull and put your trust
in God i Cant Call all the Children by name
but Give them all my love and Dear little Maty my
Kiss i hope Little Charly has Got well again So he
Can go to School and now Dear Harriet one Word to you
Lewis was Well a fiew Days ago i heard Directly from
him and So Was all the Rest of the Boys that you
no as far as i Could Learn Kiss Harry & Willy for me
and Write Soon this from your Husband & Father OG Dunckel
to Elizabeth Dunckel and Children