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Jersey Co Ills Dec 1st 1863 Dear Son I hardly know how to write upon such an awkward seet of paper but it is all I have at hand and I will make it answer rather than to miss writing Fanny and John are going to the office this afternoon I have been suffering from a billious [attack?] in the form of neuralga in the face for some days but I am better now though weak enough to render my hand rather unsteady Eugean is suffering from the same disease the rest of the family are in usual health we are getting along pretty well with our house our well though is not finished yet I fear it will not be this winter it is now the first day of Dec and the weather is fine there was such early frosts here that it killed the corn so there is but little ripe corn in the country corn and potatoes have both been as high as one dollar per bushel and wheat one dollar forty cnts It is reported the had something of a skirmish at white hall some two weeks ago I suppose some officers were trying to take some deserters and the citizens rebeled against it and they had some fighting I understand there was one man killed though I have not got the particulars they sent Jacksonville for soldiers and the citizens tore up some five or six miles of the railroad so that they could not get their without walking some distance copperheadism is about dead here I believe there is very little stir about it here now even the Democratic Union is quite mild to what it used to be I cant think of [illegible] if should judge you by myself [illegible]