States that his health has been good during the summer, but it has gone downhill since the first of July. Mentions the possibility that he will be mustered out soon. Transcription: July 5th Assteamed Father [and] Mother I seat my self With much plesure to write you a few lines to let you know that I am tolrable well at present onley I have been enjoying very good helth all this summer untell about the 1st of this month I taken an a notion that I would like like to go in a swimming so I went in and I supose I stayed in a little too long and caught coald so I have been very unwell ever since th
States that his health has been good during the summer, but it has gone downhill since the first of July. Mentions the possibility that he will be mustered out soon. Transcription: July 5th Assteamed Father [and] Mother I seat my self With much plesure to write you a few lines to let you know that I am tolrable well at present onley I have been enjoying very good helth all this summer untell about the 1st of this month I taken an a notion that I would like like to go in a swimming so I went in and I supose I stayed in a little too long and caught coald so I have been very unwell ever since though I am under the care of one of the best Surgeons in the City of Philla so you need not be any ways uneasy about me it is only a slite ca coald that I have taken Dear Father I have no news of Importance to Write at present any more than you need not write to me any more untell you hear from me agane for I shall leave here in a few days the Probility is that we will be mustered out before long so you can look for me home sume of those days though maby not untell fall as I have a speculation in view if I stay in the East untell fall if I make up my mind to stay I will let you know all about it as soon as I find it out my self so no more at present I am as Ever Your son Joseph A Fardell Title: Letter signed Joseph A. Fardell, Haddington U. S. General Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., to Father and Mother, July 5, 1865 . 5 July 1865. Fardell, Joseph A., -1914
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