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Trenton June 20th 1862
His Excellency Richard Yates
Guvernor of the State of Ills.
Honored Sir
I hopes I shal stand excused in venturing to make knowen to your Excellency the Circumstances in which my labors in behalf of my Country have brought me. To speak in plain words I am ruined and my money, time, and prosperity is gone and I, see no other prospect before me but poverty and disgrace. Under such unhappy circumstances How shall I act? I have not been indolent or extravacant, but by an ill timed and ill placed confidence, I, have been injured. A good character is what I strove to preserve a good conscience is what I still enjoi. but the world is often deaf to all our pretensions to integrity No sooner are we fallen then we are trodden under foot, our misfortunes are consideret as crimes; we are despised by some, hated by others, but pitied by few. A; Sir when shall we learn to do as we would be done by?
I know you have the power to help me! I know you have a tender compasionet heart, and your benevolence will shine with a distinguished lustre, if displayed on the pressent ocasion; and
by your help my ruin mai be prevented;
Your Excellency knows that I have now laboured [18?] months without an Cent of pay I have spent over $2000 Dollars I laboured for the benefite of my friends and country; and donne so succefuly but in return for all this I have been deceived, and if you Sir do note helpe me very soon, ruin and disgrace will be the lot of an of your Excellencey's best friends, and a family which hirtherefore dit not know what want wars will be reduced to want and poverty.
Yet I will note despair of succes my heart tells me that my application to your Excellency's benevolence, honor and justice will not be in vain. I hope that your Excellency will assist me humanely in my distressed situation and relieve me from the most pressing state of difficulties by given me a permanent situation either in the armi or somewhere, wher your Excellency thinks beste and your Excellency will restore onst mor to hapines, and confer a lasting obligation upon
Honored Sir, your grateful and most obidient Servant.
C. L. Wundt. M.D.
Dr. C .L. Wundt
June 20th
Enclosing letter from C J Sellon. The Dr wants Com. as Surgeon.