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Grant General Hospital Willette  
 
Point New York  July 3 1864
 
Point New York  July 3 1864
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Dear Wife
 
Dear Wife
                I will try this morning  
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I will try this morning  
 
to pen you a few lines if I can to  
 
to pen you a few lines if I can to  
 
let you know where I am  I was  
 
let you know where I am  I was  
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me down to a mear skeliton of  
 
me down to a mear skeliton of  
 
a man  I kept along with the  
 
a man  I kept along with the  
regement untill ["a" x'd out] two weeks  
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regement untill two weeks  
 
ago when they left me in the  
 
ago when they left me in the  
 
wilderness on the James river in Va   
 
wilderness on the James river in Va   

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Grant General Hospital Willette Point New York July 3 1864

Dear Wife

I will try this morning to pen you a few lines if I can to let you know where I am I was taken sick soon after I wrote you last with the direah which has run me down to a mear skeliton of a man I kept along with the regement untill two weeks ago when they left me in the wilderness on the James river in Va there I laid two days with nothing to eat nor no one to care for me so I crawled out to the river and hoisted a signal of distres and one of the government steam boats come and took me aboard and toated me round two or three days then put me aboard