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I think ere this reaches you, you
will doubtless be some what anxious
abought [underline]me[/underline,] unless your mind and time
is so much taken up with family
affairs that is no time left to think of
[underline]me[/underline] so far away, if so it is the reverce
with me, for I have been thinking of home
and you all the day and last night as I
did not sleep but very little, but I will
hasten to write that I am able to have
my cloathes on and go out doors and
take care of myself, but today I do not
feel neare so well as for the past two
days as you may know I [donot?] feel very
tough, as I have been more than two
hours a writing thee for in this letter
for I write a few lines then lay down to
rest, then get up and go at it again.
I never was so very weak before and
be able to be on my feet, for me to walk
but a few [rods?] tires me more than
several miles travel would when I am
well. I dont know what is best for me