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Washington June 2d 1862
Dear Sister Daphne
It is needless for me to
tell you how glad I was to receive a letter from you
yours is the onely letter I have received in over one
month I expect that they do not reach me for I saw
one of my letters advertised in Washington papers
Well you will see by this letter that I am still
alive and in the land of the living though I came
pretty near not being for the tyfoid fever gave me as
loud a call as the enemys bullets ever did, but through
the hand of a kind providence I have been restored
to my usual health and strength I was taken sick
the next day after the battle at West Point and I
lay on the ground burning with the fever for ten days
my bed was anything but comfortable but I would not
go to any hospital for they would not let me go with
my papers for my discharge as soon as I was able
to go home but I was bound to stay with the boys
let what would come and I am with them yet and
enjoying myself tip top. You wish to know wheather
we were in the fight at williansburg or not. there
was not but a part of us in the hotest of the fight
at that place for we had the amunition train to guard
and consequently we or a part of us was kept in the rear
to bring up the amunitons to the rest of the men that
were engaged