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        FROM:  J. C. Harrison
LOCATION:  Conecuh County, Alabama
               TO:  William D. Harrison
LOCATION:  Camps ?
          DATE:  March 16, 1863
 
 Dear Son,
                          I received your letter of the 12th  (this) instant and was glad to hear that you were well and to hear that Harden was well. These lines leave me and family well at this time and hoping that they may come safe to hand (and) enjoying the same blessings. I have nothing of interest to write to you at this time. I have got my old land planted and about 10 acres of my new ground broken up and will have about 8 acres more ready to burn off by the last of the week. The neighbors are very backward in planting this spring. I got a letter (from) Wm. Heath last week and he wrote me that he had lost his oldest son William Henry. He died on the 22nd of February with brain fever. Mr. Heath never wrote anything about Mary nor Isabelle. I have not heard from them in some time. I wrote you a letter some 10 days ago and I should think that you ought to have got it before now. Give my best respects to your company and especially to my acquaintances of your company. Tell John McCray that I received the lovely ballad that he sent me and I went to old town to (the) meeting the next day and I saw his old town girls and they (have) taken my ballad and I hant seen it since, but I have seen his girls since and they send their best respects to him and say they hope he will live to return and sing the ballad for them and there is a widow and I think she would make friend John a good wife. One of them is a young girl and the other is a married lady. So I must close for this time for it is now one o'clock and I must go to work. Write (as) soon as you get this and let me know how you are getting on. Excuse (the) bad writing and spelling.
                                                   

Yours Truly Until Death
 John C. Harrison to
 Wm. D. Harrison