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1864-09-04 Page 1
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Philadelphia sept 4th 1864 Dear Brother I received your letter in nearly due time with the good news that you were all well wee had not heard from you in so long a time that we began to think you had gone to the war, we are all well and have ben so most of th time, we have had the dryist summer here that I ever kew from the first of June to near the 15th of July we have not had rain enough to wet the grond 2 inches and the ground was very wet in the Spring and it just [illeg] upon grain with some exceptions thare will not be much more harv- ested then sown I went over all my grain I sowed 34 bushels Barley and I will take the same numbr of bushels oats are some better hay was a fair crop evarything is vary high here and going up (except morralls) oats $1,00 Barley $3,00 wheat $,250 hay $,200 good cows $30,00 cheese 25, butter 55, to .63 cts [evry?] kind of goods higher in porportion it costs abut as mcht. get a skirt as as it used to a suit of clothes but we must put up with it while the war last and sustain our case and our union we have filled our quota of men on the last call in this town and I think the entire county we pay a county Bounty of $1000,00 wich makes the men go reght in it makes some milk and water union men and old copperhead croakers that has no one terribly and lay eary thing to Old Abe even the county Bounty and dry weather but I
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Philadelphia sept 4th 1864 Dear Brother I received your letter in nearly due time with the good news that you were all well wee had not heard from you in so long a time that we began to think you had gone to the war, we are all well and have ben so most of th time, we have had the dryist summer here that I ever kew from the first of June to near the 15th of July we have not had rain enough to wet the grond 2 inches and the ground was very wet in the Spring and it just [illeg] upon grain with some exceptions thare will not be much more harv- ested then sown I went over all my grain I sowed 34 bushels Barley and I will take the same numbr of bushels oats are some better hay was a fair crop evarything is vary high here and going up (except morralls) oats $1,00 Barley $3,00 wheat $,250 hay $,200 good cows $30,00 cheese 25, butter 55, to .63 cts [evry?] kind of goods higher in porportion it costs abut as mcht. get a skirt as as it used to a suit of clothes but we must put up with it while the war last and sustain our case and our union we have filled our quota of men on the last call in this town and I think the entire county we pay a county Bounty of $1000,00 wich makes the men go reght in it makes some milk and water union men and old copperhead croakers that has no one terribly and lay eary thing to Old Abe even the county Bounty and dry weather but I
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