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Partly copied Office Cincinnati, Peru & Chicago Rail Road, La Porte, Ind., July 30 1863

My dear good Wife

         I wrote you yesterday but I feel so anxious that I write you a few words to-day. I do hope I shall hear that you are all well & that Ellen is still with you & that you are getting along well. I am not well to-day I took cold yesterday & last night & to-day my throat is sore more so than I have had it before for years but I suppose it is caused by the air being so damp & sultry. I have seen in the Springfield Republican a list of the names of the drafted men in Massachusetts. I send you a copy of the names of the men drafted in Warwick by which you will see that Samuel is not drafted, Joseph N Atwood, Wm H Gate, Chas H. Jennings, George I Creew, Simon P Shepardson, Alanson W., S. Clark, Daniel Pierce, Henry Fisher, James D Johnson, Samuel H. Williams, Nathan L. Hastings, James O. Cook, Wm O'Brien, Lorenzo K. Moore

[left-hand side]How much flour have you on hand