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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

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-�Grant General Hospital Willette Point New York
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-July 3 1864
+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 with the [direah] which has run me down to  a mear skeleton of a man.  I kept along with the regiment until 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 tow or three days then put me aboard
+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