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�Willetts Point General Hospital New York Harbor July 22 1864 Dearest Daughter

I will try to sit up a little while this afternoon to pen a few lines in answer to your kind letter of the 18th which came safe to hand to day and was glad to hear from you all I am still very [?] and I fear I am going to loose the use of my feet and leggs they are groing numb and useless the Doctrs wiill not try to do anything for them if they can I am all discouraged about them but I think if I could get home for a while and get Ed Kilbourn to do something for them if he cannot help them nobody can but I cannot get home without some one to help me I wish you would see Dr Kilbourn or Mr Littlefield and see if they cannot do something for me in their way of

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+�Willetts Point General Hospital
+New York Harbor July 22 1864
+Dearest Daughter
+I will try to sit up a little
+while this afternoon to pen a few lines
+in answer to your kind letter of the
+th which came safe to hand to day and
+was glad to hear from you all I am
+still very [?] and I fear I am going
+to loose the use of my feet and leggs
+they are groing numb and useless
+the Doctrs wiill not try to do anything
+for them if they can I am all discouraged
+about them but I think if I could get
+home for a while and get Ed Kilbourn
+to do something for them if he cannot
+help them nobody can but I cannot
+get home without some one to help me
+I wish you would see Dr Kilbourn or
+Mr Littlefield and see if they cannot do
+something for me in their way of