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	Stevenson Ala July 31st 1864
Dear wife it is now three weeks tomorrow
since I got a letter from you or heard a word
from you if you are not able to write have
Electa mention it with her letters to John.
Ed Basseett got a letter day before yesterday not
a word about you in it John has not had
had a letter for two weeks. if you have
forgotten me just say so in your next.
and I will do as the Irishman did send
it back without opening it. Well it is
very lonesome not to hear a word from
home I could almost run away to find
out what had become of you are you
all well and two busy to write or have
you wrote and the letters have miscarried
I feel very uneasy. I think I shall come
home in October and then I shall pay you
up for this seeming neglect I am
well as ever we are at Stevenson yet and
are like to be for a month or more yet
there is a good deal of work to do here
yet. the war news from the front is
very good Sherman is pushing the rebels
hard at Alanty they say Gen Grant has
mined Petersburgh and will blow it up

in a short time well I wish he would
dig a mine under the whole Southern Confed-
eracy and blow it all to flinders.
Please to write as soon as possible
is the children well do they grow any
and do they learn fast kiss them
for me would they like to see their
pa tell them pa would like to see
them have you got a copy of that vote
in town for township bounty yet if
you have send me a copy of it in your
next letter for if there is any chance
to get it I am in for it. well I must
go and get dinner so I must bring
this short letter to a close when I get a
letter from you I will try and write a
longer letter than this one I dont think
of much more to write only we had
boiled corn for supper last night
we live on the top shelf here this
summer good bye for this time from
your husband
		Simeon A Howe