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Aprile the 14 1862

Warwick County virginia

Camp nere worktown

Dear father and Mother

I now sed my self down to write a few lines to let you no that we are all well at present and hoping that these few lines may find you all in the same state of good health and further i let you no that we recevid your letter yesterday and we was very glat to here from you again and I let you no that we are not more as aboud one mile from the reples any more we did take to the reples when we was on picked gard and i did see there camps and flags and every sings that i want to see and they fired at us like hell and we fired and [crossed out ] once and sho[crossed out] shot aboud thirty of them i exbect we git a hard

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battle here once[crossed out] one of these days but we are not quite rety yet but i exbect aboud

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the of this week it will comense and i let you no that we didten git [?-crossed out] pate yo[crossed out] yit and i dunt sing we will till the war is over and i dunt no how long it[crossed out] that will last yit and i

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let you no that we very nise and worme weter here most too worme somtimes but i hope we can com home till next fall and further i let you no that i would like to have postage stamp for fifty cent and if you plese sent them in the next letter for we cant git any do[crossed out] down here any more for we have no money and the half letters dunt go if we dunt pay them and write soon[crossed out] soon this is all at present

Emanuel Peter Franklin Peter Jacob Peter write soon