OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - The James Perry Fyffe Letters (Civil War)
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TO:	Mrs. Willa Fyffe
	Georgetown, Ohio

Batavia   July 5th , 1861
My Dear Wife

	Normaly free I shall not be able to be at home as soon as I had 
anticipated.  I send you a note in pencil which you will excuse as I cannot 
procure other materials as it is late and in the morning at 5 o'clock I 
leave for Camp Denison where I ought to have been tonight but you know I  
road four hours and I met many of my old friends with whom the memory of the 
past has become as it were a part of my being and from whom I could not tear 
myself away although I felt condemned in not hurrying onwards by some means 
so as to be able to be back to see you at the time indicated but there was 
no conveyence until 5 o'clock in the morning.  At 10 we take the Lightning 
Express for Columbus.  Reach there at 12 AM, From there I must come back by 
Dayton and I cannot tell when I will leave Columbus and the time I will be 
at home depends on that. I will come just as soon as I possibly can and 
Willa dont be impatient nor fret.  This is the first night I have been 
absent from you and you dont know how I feel.  I have been much affected by 
the affection that my old friends have manifested  and Ms. Howard she wants 
to see you.  I will tell you all about what made me feel bad when talking to 
her when I see you - her husband had been with me in Mexico.  And I have much
to tell you about him & others but I must close.

Aduos My Life - Perry