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+ | Letter of Jasper B. Cheney to his father | ||
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+ | Relay House Md\\ | ||
+ | July 2, 1862 | ||
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+ | Dear Father | ||
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+ | Inclosed I send you a draft of $50 dollars which you | ||
+ | will dispose of as soon as you find a safe place and not | ||
+ | until then. I sent to Washington by Lieut. Follet for the | ||
+ | draft and told him to get it to your order and gave him your | ||
+ | name on a piece of paper; but he lost the paper and could not | ||
+ | remember the name, so he got it to my order and spelled the | ||
+ | name wrong. I have given you an order on the back to draw it | ||
+ | and to save getting a new draft I have spelled the name as he | ||
+ | did If you will please sign your name as it is in the draft | ||
+ | it will save considerable expense. | ||
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+ | If you tell them it is not the way you usualy sign your | ||
+ | name they may not let you have it for they are usualy very | ||
+ | scrupulous. Pleas inform me whether those who have my money | ||
+ | have payed the interest or not, and what you have done with | ||
+ | Pages that I sent you first. | ||
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+ | I have been informed that you have received a letter | ||
+ | from Joseph. I should like to have Edward copy it and send it | ||
+ | to)me-. Do not send the letter if you wish to keep it for I | ||
+ | cannot preserve it for you here. We have got new Sabres and | ||
+ | Colts Navy revolvers. Our saddles are here but of course have | ||
+ | not been distributed. The Captain tells us that our horses | ||
+ | are now on the way from Indianappolis; so we shall soon be | ||
+ | mounted. Today we visited by a cold rain storm. | ||
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+ | Has Aunt Lucina been out. Please write immediately after | ||
+ | receiving this. I am well so are the rest of the White Stone | ||
+ | boys. Ma expressed some fear about my knee it is entirely | ||
+ | well, but I could not have said so many days ago. Tell Uncle | ||
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+ | I that I would like to have him answer my letter I cannot | ||
+ | think of more to write so I will close. | ||
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+ | Yours C B Cheney\\ | ||
+ | E.W. Cheney\\ | ||
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+ | P.S. I have received a letter from Ma & Ellen | ||
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+ | Jasper B. Cheney\\ | ||
+ | US Army Heritage and Education Center, CWDOC Collection | ||
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