Sunday morning
Dear Sister Susie, C. H. Lines Please write soon
The original of this letter is in the possession of my cousin, Sandra, nee Zeimer, who lives in Reading, PA.
It is with the greatest of pleasure that I seat myself down to answer your ever true and welcome letter which came to hand last week one day, and was glad to hear that you are well. and I will tell you that I am well at present and enjoy good health, hoping when these few lines will reach you that you may all enjoy the same state of health and happiness. Further, I am sorry to hear that Ann is married and none of you did even as much as give me the scratch of pen before she did. (2) I thought it pretty hard the boys pretty near in the whole company knowed it before I did and the news came in about a dozen of letters and in the newspaper. you might have knowed that it could not be kept secret. all came running to me and rubbed it up in under my nose. but enough said about that. I will tell you that the boys are all in good humor that are here, but the news came to camp yesterday moorning that Abe Funk is dead. he was on his way home and got as far as Baltimore and there he died in the hospital but whether it is so or not we can not tell. when you get this letter and (3) (I made a mistake in writing this letter. you must look on the numbers of the pages and then you will get it together ) hear anything about Abe Funk tell us about him. and I must tell you that Elias Funk came over to see us yesterday morning. he lays about 25 miles from here and he is well and is the same old boy that he was last winter. and today he is going over home again. He says that John Urban and Aaron Fralick are taken prisoner and are in Libby Prison in Richmond. we can buy some Butter here for 80 cents a pound only, and English cheese only 50 cents a pound. about a quart can of apple butter for seventy five cents so you may well understand that things are very cheap (4) about here. I wrote a letter to Susan A. Ayle and I got an answer from her last week and they were all well there and today I answered it again but old Grandfather Brennerman was very poorly then. I would like to know what is wrong with Benjamin Hackman. I wrote two letters to him already and did not get an answer yet. I would like to know whether he is not at home. and I wrote one to Henry Hall and never got an answer yet. with these few remarks I must bring my scribbling to a close for this time. excuse bad writing and all mistakes.
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