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| − | + | � Grant General Hospital Willette | |
| − | July 3 1864 | + | Point New York July 3 1864 |
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Dear Wife | 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 skeliton of a man I kept along with the regement untill a | + | 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 ["a" x'd out] 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 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 ["a" x'd out] 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