Near Corinth, Mississippi, July 4th 1862(Note: This letter is by Sarah's brother, Samuel Wylie Cunningham)
Sarah Dear Sister, yours [letter] of 27 was received, which did me good to hear from you and that you and children was enjoying pretty good health, one of God's best earthly blessings. With health we may make life happy with almost anything to support nature, but without health if we have all the world for enjoyment, it would not satisfy. Therefore, those who have good health cannot be too grateful to the giver of every good gift. The health of the army is pretty good, better than it was some days back. Our Regt has lost one man by sickness since we camped in this place. The only death by sickness since [undecipherable] to Co. H. was from Randolf County by the name of John McKee, a relative of the McKees in Centralia. He had cholera and then took inflammation of the stomach, but his case is not like many others in the army. He was raised in the [undecipherable] Church and was a very religious young man, and while he had his [undecipherable] was in triumph of the faith that was in Christ Jesus as his savior. What a blessing for them that lose friends to know that they will have a part in the first resurrection and will walk with the Lord in white. This [undecipherable] the sincerity of a man's faith if he has built his hopes on the savior, his house has [undecipherable]. Our Regt has
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Cunningham, Samuel [Wylie]
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