Franklin County: L.E. Bentz to Peter Boyer and Cyrus Engle, July
26, 1865
Summary:
A friend writes to Peter Boyer and Cyrus Engle about the work he is doing at home and when
they might be discharged.
Peter Boyer and Cyrus Engle
July 26th 1865
Brickersville, Pa
Peter & Cyrus,
Once more I take pleasure in writing to you to inform you that I am at Present in good health
and am a free Citizen and sincerely wish you could be the same. I am at home about a week now
and am working as good as ever I have been binding Oats and hauling home the same and more I am
raking one of the furnace fields for the half. There was a beer party at Moses Letters last
Saturday but I was not there.
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I have seen both your parents and spoke to them and
Peters father got a letter a few days ago I think if you go to work
and make application for your discharge you may be able to get it, go to work thus tell the
Colonel or who ever is in command of you and tell him that according
to an order issued all troops whose times of service expire before the 1st of January 1866 are to be discharge and your time is up on the 16th of Oct 1865, and I actually believe that you will be discharged.
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I have not much or any news. everything appears very dull a good many or most all
the boys that have been gone are back except those one year new which are still at Staunton
Va and dont know how soon they will be mustered
out I have been to see some of my old duck and they do it as good as they ever did, there are
any amount of young gals here at present. Tomorrow there will be a wedding Mr Eckert is going to marry Harriet Matthews.
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There will be a party in
Brickersville tonight and a Pic Nic at Jesse
[unclear: Runabeckers] on Saturday we have plenty of ways to spend the five cents we
brought home I think I shall go to Illinois again before very long I wish that you could come
back before I go I do very much wish to see you both I wish you all the luck and hope you can
soon return home, I am well and hope you are the same,
I am as ever your Friend
L.E. Bentz
to Peter Boyer & Cyrus Engle
