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1862-02-06 Page 1
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62 Independence Mo Feb the 6 Dear father and mother it is with pleasure i take my pen in hand to let you know that i am as well as ever and hope these few line will find you and all of the family well as I i have very little to do i thought i would write you a few line to let you know how we was getting along out here among the secesh. Well we are getting along very well so far they don't trouble us any. But they stopped the Stage yesterday and sacked it Some of our bogs is after them i don't know whether they will catch them or not this is the third time they have taken it since we have been here they may have got some of our letters i don't think they got much money. The small pox has broken out here among us one of our co has got it very bad he is from Pella all of us boys from about Attica got vaccinated yesterday i don't know wether it will do any good as not i don't know how it started there is no body got it here only him i think the doctor must have started it to get a fee off of the govt as we have no doctor with us our doctor is with the regt you need not be uneasy about us we will try and do the best we can
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62 Independence Mo Feb the 6 Dear father and mother it is with pleasure i take my pen in hand to let you know that i am as well as ever and hope these few line will find you and all of the family well as I i have very little to do i thought i would write you a few line to let you know how we was getting along out here among the secesh. Well we are getting along very well so far they don't trouble us any. But they stopped the Stage yesterday and sacked it Some of our bogs is after them i don't know whether they will catch them or not this is the third time they have taken it since we have been here they may have got some of our letters i don't think they got much money. The small pox has broken out here among us one of our co has got it very bad he is from Pella all of us boys from about Attica got vaccinated yesterday i don't know wether it will do any good as not i don't know how it started there is no body got it here only him i think the doctor must have started it to get a fee off of the govt as we have no doctor with us our doctor is with the regt you need not be uneasy about us we will try and do the best we can
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