PetersBurg V.A.
January 18 1865

Dear Wife and Children,

I Seat my self this morning to Rite you afew lines to let you now that I am well as to health but my knees and hips hurts me so bad that I dont now what to doo. I dident sleepe one hour last night with them but I hope that these lines may Reach your kind hands and find you all well and dooing well. _____ you a letter the 15 but I _____ it would not git _____ Rite another _____ _____y Henry Green _____ _____ home and a furlow _____ _____ght you would git _____ I received your kind letter that was dated the 3. I was pleased to hear from you all and hear that you was all well. [p.1] I Rote to you for you to Rite to me whether tha would bee any chance for a man to Stay at home are not. now I feel like that I could not stay with them mutch longer. I cant be Satisfide. I dremp last night that you come down hear to see me. I thought that I was the gladest fellow that ever was in the world. I thought that I seen my littel sweete baby. I thought it was the _____ Child that we had. I am afraid that I never will git _____ _____ still live to _____ _____ the balanse of them _____ I would Rather see you now than to have A bushel of gold. _____ I want you to pray to God to Spare my life to live to git home and See you all again. [p.2] Camp haint never come back yet I dont now what happened so this is 5 days over his time and I am afraid that if you started a box by him I am afraid Sum of the things will Spoyl he gits hear with them but I never get a box yet but what sum of it was spoyled. I hope this _____ it wont be so you can tell Washington Mooney that I want him to come back so if we come home so we can have _____ our company.

I _____ kiss my littel _____.

have to close _____saying Rite soon

F. M. Poteet to Martha Poteet [p.3]

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