Chattanooga Tenn July 30th /64
Dear Wife and Children I am
Quite Smart to Day and hope this
will find you the Same but as i have
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not heard from you^ So Long I
am afraid their is Something to
matter at home I am Still in
the Hospitle But i am Detailed
hear as a nurse and how long
i Shall Stay hear i Dont no
i may Stay 3 or 6 months or
i may not Stay 2 weeks and So
i will have you Send your Letters
hear after this till you hear from
me again but the Last Letter
i have got from you was Dated
the 28 Day of may and you may
how ancious i am to hear from
you and i all most begin to 
think you have forgotten me
but i wont Quite think So yet


and i am going to send you
ten Dollars in this i have Drawen
26 dollars Since i Come hear and
that is all i have Drawen Since
i Left Grand Rappids and when
i Come hear i Borrowed 5 dollars
from Geor Price when i firs come
hear and of Corse i would Pay him
as he was a Good friend to me in
my Sickness and when i was Sick
Some theaf Stole my hat and 
yesterday i sent to the sitty and
beaught me a hat a Quine of of paper
one Pack of Envelopes 90 Cents of
Stamps and the hull of it cost
me five dollars and So you
Can See that i have only $6 
Dollars left after Sending you
10 Dollars and i Dont beleave 
you will blame me for youseing
So mutch money when i was
Sick as i yoused it for my
Comford and you will


youse the money i Send
you to make you and the
Children Coumfertable i borro
-wed 25 dollars from George
Price from the money that come
from Stevenson to Pay [martha?]
Some and youse some of it for
other Purpises and George Price
Wrote to Brother George when i
was Sick for me about it but
if aney thing has hapned that
George did not Get the 25 Dollars
you had better let martha have
5 Dollars out of this but if She has
been Paid Some then you Can Keep
this and you hadent better Say
aney thing about it to aney one
you want to no perhaps what i Do hear
i tend to the Sick all Day and half
of the nite it is hard work i tell
you weak as i am now but it is
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better after all then it is on the fron^
as i have a Good bed hear and plenty to

to Eat and now i want
you to Write Every week and
i will Do the Same and when you
write tell me all of the news James
Price Wrote to George he Got the Letter
the other Day he Said the Story was
Round their that i was Dead when
you Write tell me whare it Started
from tell Harriet that i have not 
heard from Lewis for Sertin Since
the 12 of July he was well then but
I Seen a Sick Soldier from ower
Co the other Day and he Said Lewis
was Sick and he thought he was Sen
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-t to Some Hospitle but i Dont thin^
it is So as i have Looked at the Papers
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and Cant find his name but i must Clos^
for this time Kiss all the Babys for
Pa and Good by the Hospitle heards
numberd by letters A B C and So on mine
us F is F Direct to General Field
Hospitle Ward F Chattanooga
Tenn OG Dunckel to Elizabeth
and Hat and Children Good By