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Letter from Tilton C. Reynolds to Juliana Smith Reynolds, October 6, 1861

Camp Franklin, Oct 6th 1861

Dear Mother,

I Received your letter last evening and was verry glad to get a letter from home for It was the first I had got for Some time. We have moved our quarters and are now In the Camp which you see written above. I am In good Health and good spirits although Some of our fellows are Sick. One of Capt Rose?s men from Clearfield County Died Yesterday after a short Sickness. He died about 9 O clock in the morning and was Burried In the affternoon. His name was Hogan he was a middle aged man. I do not know exactly what ailed him. Some say he was poisoned in Washington and others that He died of Billious fever. He was a man that Drunk pretty hard they he looked Awful after he died. I did not go to see him though he died only a few feet from where I slept. I could hear him groaning all night. Hugh Conn is Sick but Is getting Better now as fast as possible.