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�Grant General Hospital Willette Point New York
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�    Grant General Hospital Willette  
July 3 1864
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Point New York   July 3 1864
 
 
 
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 [crossed 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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                I will try this morning  
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to pen you a few lines if I can to  
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let you know where I am  I was  
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taken sick soon after I wrote you
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last with the direah which has run  
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me down to a mear skeliton of  
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a man  I kept along with the  
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regement untill ["a" x'd out] two weeks  
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ago when they left me in the  
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wilderness on the James river in Va   
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there I laid two days with nothing  
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to eat nor no one to care for me  
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so I crawled out to the river  
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and hoisted a signal of distres  
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and one of the government steam  
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boats come and took me aboard  
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and toated me round two or  
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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