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Regiment: 1st Michigan Engineers
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July 22nd 1864
My Very Dr Son
I take up my pen to
[ ? ] to answer your
two last kind letters it gave me great pleasure
to hear that you was feeling Better & your kind
in a fair way for recovery. But I am
very sorry to hear you are trobled with that
wendy complaint for well can I sympathize
with you for I have had my share of it
I suppose I for ever must while I remain
in the vale of tears I was a little older
then you when I was first atacked I was
coming home from meeting one Sunday
night & I did not know how to get home it
is a family complaint you may get
something for it that will help you but
you will allways be plagued with it at time
I have never been able to get help for it so
I have to suffer it at pepermint water well help
some pepole but
[ ? ]helps me some
but you must see what the Doctor says about
it that as been the cause of a many of my
Family using Tobacco my said Aunt She believed
it had saved her life for the same thing
I was to proud to be a smoker but I would
say to you as you are a man if you cannot
get help as a last resort smoke for it if
you can do so without making a slave of
it. My health as been very indifferent
of late & my marry household sister
added to overwhelming troble of mind
as been allmost more then I could con
tend with when I think of the fate of my
poor boy it is all most more then I can
bear. O how I have poured out my soul
to God for him till my strenght as all
most failed me O if it would please the Lord
to hear our unite prayers & exchange him
how thankful should we be but poor Child I
fear he must Die a thousand deaths where
he is You ask about you Bond I have
allways forgot it is safe your Father saw after
it as soon as posible & he got a Bond last
March it goes for 3 years at 7 percent
from that time I thought you had not
Bought a watch but if you get short of
money you must send home for
some we will send it I dont wish you to
want for any thing I dont know how we are
going to ive things is getting worse every
week Brown Sugar is 22cts coffe sugar1.0cts
per pound peper 75cts pork is $40
a Barrel & clothing is going up all the
time I dont know how poor folks is to live
that as not regular employment to do
pend upon Father as had good brisk
with his harvest the man came on Tuesday
night but it rained most of the next day
on Thursday morning they started but it sent
them in again before noon but after
Dinner it cleared up & continued to right
thro they did it in little less then 5 days
he
[ ? ] the man & the Boys & him
went to work & had it all in started it it
was hard work for them to
[ ? ] so high
but they managed it & it saved 6 they
got it all made safe day before it rained
it hindered the harvest for a few days but
I suppose it is much of it in by now. Wm Baker
begged hard for Father to stack his wheat
but he refuse hear enough to do at home
& they dont
[ ? ] to pay much for it he
as commence his Fallow ther week hear
doing it with his own team he complaned
sadly of his arms hurting him & I believe it
but he is anxious to do it his self if he can
if it takes him longer I wish the thrashing
was over for he will have to go to work for
folks a week to pay for help I can tell you
Better about the wheat after it is thrashed
Father says it was better then he expected it
would be after that
[ ? ] but you know
it was made bad work with in the winter
upon them hills bailys are a good crop
&
[ ? ] as ten acres very fine the
[ ? ] ground not very good
[ ? ] as too
stacks they dont lost such a great deal
larger then ours but Father says they are larger
round but he had 25 acres he as been getting
[ ? ] on shares at gross. & the old man as
been helping him he is so tough as ever
for any thing I see I wish Father could stand
what he can he seems like corn.
