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The place and year of this letter are uncertain. I am saying near Louisville, Nov 1862. The camp name is undecipherable in three different letters; see comparison
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Camp Fowett[?] Nov 29th Dear brother
I thout I would write you a few lines to let you know that we ar all well
Gabe is a little better he is a going to be discharged
and sent home as soon as he is able to travle the boys
is just a coming in from picett guard they ar a tarring
after some thing to eat they were sent of[f] with nothing
to eat but raw pork and dry bread we ar a getting fat
as pigs it is just such a life as I like to live
thare was a bridge burnt in about 30 miles of here night before last
you must write soon
from your brother W O Wells
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[it seems the next morning,
but Wm uses same date]
Nov 29th 18[?]
Dear bother
how do you do this morning I am prety well I thank you
Charley is gon of on gard and he wants me to speak to you about paying
his taxes he says that if you will pay them he will make
it all rite with you he is a going to write as soon as
he can get tim[e] I recieved a paper from you last eavning
I was very glad to get it if you take them papers i wish
that you would send them to me the michigan papers is
sometime a little extry here i cannot think of much more
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Dear mother
I thout that i would like to say a few words to you
i am well how do you do this morning
tell Granth brothers that I want them to write to me
I cannot get the things to write with I am out of money
and cannot get paper and stamps to write with the home
boys hav got 11 boxes of vituals from home I belive that
I cannot think of eny more to write this time you must
write as soon as you get this
from your son Wm O Wells
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Ida I came near to forgetting to write to you
how do you do and how is Sady ar you a going to to school
this winter write you must as often as you can
I am not in eny hury to go home I am not home sick eny
at all
no more this time from your brother
William Wells O
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Wm's sisters:
Martha Ida Almyra,
born Jan 7, 1851, age almost 11yrs
Sadie (Sady) Ada Phidelia;
born Sep 14, 1856, age 6 years
Both girls survive childhood, marry and have their own children
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