Jacob Swartzlander - Harper's Ferry, Va. July 23, 1861 1
Harper's Ferry Va.
Harper's Ferry Va.
July 23rd 1861
Friend Han,
Your letter dated
July 8th I received last evening.
You complain of not receiving
any letters from me. I have written
to you frequently but I suppose
the letters miscarried. I have re-
ceived only three letters from you
since we left Washington City.
I thank you for that paper I got
last week. I was short of money a
while but I have made a (? house)
since, and now I can get along
until we are paid off. If I had
had plenty of money I could not
have spent it in Harrisburg
and Charlestown, for the stores
were mostly closed and tobacc