1 Fleetwood Benson Norfolk City July 29, 1865 1
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Norfolk City July 29
65
Dear wife
I received your welcome
letter yesterday I am very glad you
are well and I hope you may still
injoy good helth when this Comes home I wood
like to Come with it Mother I am thankled
this morning I Can say to you I am
well and have been very well for some
time I hope the Lord will still
bless us with good health the wether
has been very hot and dry here for some
time we had no rain here for ten days
I see in a letter Fouse got from home
the other day states you all heard we
must go to texas dont let these repor
ts make you uneasy it is not so we
are not going to texas we are Comeing
home before very long I think your
letter states you was looking for me home
about the time you wrote this letter I wish
it had been true I will get home some
day Mother before very long I hope and then
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