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Lebanon, Ky March the 28th
[1863] My Dear Parents I am
well as usial and here at Lebanon We had orders to
Louisville but came here this other letter is one
that I wrote to [you while in] Bowling
Green it dose not seam so that John is
Dead you never wrote that he was
Dead but Poor boy he has left a world of sorrow
and I trust that he is happy in Eteranety I may be
the next one to follow and if I do Live to come home you shall never
need for eny thing as long I can raise...
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...one hand
before the other I want you to write all about
Johns death we ar here where the mail is cut of by
the rebles and I hav to express this through it is
not likly that I can write again very soon and tharefore you must
not wory about me if you do not here from me again in a great
while i told you to direct to Louisville but
direct to Bowling Green if you write at all I
wrote to you for some money but I do expect that you do not got it
for me and I do not want you to send me eny money and deprive your
selves of the comforts of life i am out of money
but I can...
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...better than
you can if you here that we ar taken prisoners you
must not wory about me for if I do get taken prisoner as soon as I
get perold [paroled] I shall come home for a while
when the rebles take prisoners they do not keep them but a little
while thare is a great many rebles not a great way
of[f] I cannot write much more now so I must wish you good by
for this time
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