Norfolk, va dear wife
as it is sunday and it is raigning and
i am lomsom i thaut i wold a muse
my selef in writing a fiew lines to
you to inform you that
reseived the box that was on the road so
long and also that every thing was all
safe and sound except that the biscuit
and that was some moldy i was
very glad to get the shirts i am drest
up like a sitizan to day but i dont
feal as good with them on as if i was
home to day for if i was i dont
think i wold be so lomsom i hope
the war will end soon so i can come
home and se you and [?] o what grate
plesure it wold give me but if i
ant i will half to content mi selef
here bill knapp and the rest of the
boys that is in the hospitital
to craney island is pade up and we
hante and we think now that we
wont git our pay till the fitienth
of nex month and the
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last of this month uncle sam will
o me for 6 monts survis now
my dear wife i will close fora the
present and rite a fiew lines to
father so good buy
Write soon
Dear father and mother as i have
a little more room i that i will
rite to lett you no that we have
not got our pay yet but when
i do git it i will send it home
to you i dont whant eney of you to
git on easey a bout me keep up
god chear and hope for the best
rite and let me no what the general
oppinion is a bout this war they
seam to think a round here that
it will end betwen now and spring
i hope it will well fahter there
is nothing no to rite now so i
will close for the present
hoping to here from you all
soon so good buy father
and mother Drect as before
You will find on Dollar enclosed n
this letter to wife
Eward F. Shepherd, 7th New York Light Artillery
MSS 12631
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