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Morgan City [Ille?] June
27th
Dear friend
We are in good circumstances as to our health
buisness and &c but our country is suffering the
ravages of war. the indians have desolated the fron-
tiers by massacaring the inhabitants and our cou-
ntry men have taken up their arms and marched
[against] the savages. a body of men under capt Sted-
man was attacted at a considerable distance from the
main army, by a body of indians about dusk. the
whites retreated after having 11 killed including one of the off-
icers we do not know how many indians, 5000
more soldiers have just marched out with the
intention of making a treaty on their own terms
or destroying the whole tribe which is the fox india-
ns. our country is not in so prosperous a state as it has
been but is still the Eden which it has been
Miss Sarah McCurdy
Rusells Ville,
Kentucky
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From the page prompted me to the second page, but I back tracked to get some context clues, I saw the page was unfinished and missing words so I edited while I was here.
Don't forget to match each sentence with the format the letter is in and we cannot add additional punctuation unless it is in [brackets].
I know sometimes punctuation and grammar is not great (it gets me too), but we have to stay as authentic to the piece as possible.
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