Jacob Swartzlander

                                                                                                                                                                   St. Joseph's Hospital
                                                                                                                                                                     Philadelphia, Penna.

                                                                                                                                                                                    July 6, 1862
                                                                                                                                                                                  July 12, 1862
                                                                                                                                                               July 16, 1862  5:00 A.M.
Cousin Han,
              I always sleep in the morning until the flies plague me so that I get mad and then I get up. Those clothes came here last Saturday all right. Mrs. Parsons brought them.
              I am getting well slowly. Yesterday the Dr. left the bandage off my face. The holes in the cheeks have cloned up but there are two horrible scars there, broad and deep.

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