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Jersey Co Ills Sept 22:1863 Dear Son your letters of the 23 of Aug and Sept 6th both came to hand at once and were gladly received for I had began to be anxious to hear that you was still alive well and doing well so you see how necessary it is to keep up a regular correspondence you had got so lonesome without news from home I suppose as a matter of course you that have to work get better wages than those that are in the Regt and little or nothing to do through I suppose the stimulus of getting promoted is lack in your department we are all well getting along slowly with our house and well you ask about the water there is a well of poor water on the place and long way from the