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Post Hospital Drug Store
Camp Butler
Springfield
Ills
My dear Wife
I was very glad to find you
recd the Draft on Chicago all right - I was
I suppose as uneasy about that as about
any thing else before in my life - Now then
"birdie" I want you to try & love me
if any poor devil Ever went through change
it is myself, the last year.
So you want to know
how I came to Enlist do you, well
then Geo Hand has a brother at [NF?]
Merrill's & Geo Came to see him, he
looked so well dressed so nicely &
had such lots of money that I had
army on the brain & went to Spring
field & Enlisted as a private in
the 91st Col Day's regt I must
say however that I had previously
visited Camp Butler & partly
made arrangements to become
apothecary, but found it necessary
to be an Enlisted man. With my