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Mathias Embry
Write as soon as possible
December the 27th, 1863.
My dear cousin: It is with the greatest of pleasure that I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well at present and I hope when these few lines come to hand may find you enjoying the same blessing.
Andrew Co. H (?) has came to the regiment
you would not know him he has an entire appearance of a man
Elijah has got well and able for duty but he is not the man
he used to be in health Thornton Conant (?) is lame and is gone for south for leaving the hospital.
Charles Newton is gone to Portsmouth Virginia some
where I was born, Monrow and I not seen him since the last of July and have not heard of him since the 16 of September and he was well at that time and/did not notice in his letter and suppose thought done it and would not write any more. I wrote a letter to him yesterday staying the reports from home which I got in letters and sent it by a colored soldier William Cormorant is well ( ) my letter. Lamont Graves is the same, as for myself I am...
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