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Regiment: 2nd Wisconsin Infantry
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October the six 1861
Dear father and mother i take my
pen in hand to write you those few
lines hopeing to find you in good
helth as it levas me at present
i have not got a letter from you
for three weeks and i dont know
how it is i wish you would
let me knowhow you can not
wright or where the letters mised
or not pleas to wright so soon
as you can all the boys get letters
but me i wish you would send
me some papers to read i sent
you four or five papers i dont
know where you got it or not
so pleas to wright so
soon as you can
we ar going to move tomorow
to anther camp so soon as we
get there i will wright again
and sen you a paper i will
send home som pretty piturs
to mary Jane and Sam and
Jim and send some paper for
Miss Chesterfield to wright
love letters with
So no more at
present from your faitful
son Richard Chesterfield
Washington
D.C.
