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Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
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Letter from brothers, Isaac and Walter Witherell to their mother,
Eupemia (Scoon) Witherell
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Camp near Staford C.H.
March 15th, 1863


Dear mother i thought i would write a few lins to day to let you no
that we are well at present and i hope this will find you the same.
mother i and walter went over and made father a visit day befoe
yesterday.  he is not well nor has not ben since the battle of
fredricksburg.  he has the rheumatism so bad that he cant hardly move.
we stade all nite with him and when we started back to our regiment he

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cried like a child.  i tell you he is to be pitied.  it is to bad that
a man as old as he is has to be used in the way that he is.  Walter
cut his hair before we left him he sed that uncle Levi promised to
wright to him but had not.  i want you to write to me as often as you
can.  i dont get a letter once a month and i send one every day.  do
you no whether holdridge has got the check i sent to him.  if he has i
should like to have you see him and have him send me one dolar in
stamps

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because i cant get any here.  i cant write much this time.  Write to
me as soon as you get this and you mite write to father.

give my love to all the girls.

from your sons in the army
Isaac and Walter Witherell
VA
to father 33 regment
Company G

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Transcriber's Notes:

Letter sent from Stafford Court House, VA

Their father, Seymour B. Witherell, 33rd Regt New York Volunteers

Reference to "uncle Levi", probably Levi Scoon

Reference to "holdridge", likely George or John T. Holdridge