Longrun Station
Doddridge Co Wv
August the [?] 1865
Friend I am at the present found seated to rite[sic] you a few lines, to inform you of times and cases concerning any [?] I have the privlige[sic] of asking you to tell me what about soldiers that enlisted in the sixty [?] getting bounty lands or land bounty the reasin[sic] is I have an interest in finding out or trying it. For my self having enlisted in 1862 and was discharged in 1865 and was promest[sic] bounty land and I have fought bravely and my discharge will show that I was a soldier and I want you to accomadate[sic] me so much as to rite[sic] to me soon after receiving my letter and tell me last what I am [?] [?] and it will accomadate me very much if you will se[sic] about it and let me as son as you can I served in 114 days of 3 years and only..40 Dollars bounty and I think it very fair if it is to be got [?] send me somthing[sic] [?] me where to go to get a warnt for the land it was promist[sic] me and I want it now for I am out of the servis[sic] and my health is so bad I am not able to work for a living.
My name is Thaddeus S Sutton
Co.E ll Wva inft
[?] Lieut.M.H.Berrys Company
You will please rite[sic] [?]
[?] Smithton
Doddridge Co
West Va
Lv Thaddeus S Sutton If there is any chance I will br out in [?] [?]
Please rite[sic] soon [sic]
Tel[sic] -...me if[?] Discharge to an old Soldier Is any [?]
Transcription by Shannon Laws, undergraduate student enrolled in Dr. Billy Joe Peyton's Fall 2010 "Introduction to Public History" at West Virginia State University