Answer:
Dear Mary,
The war has been <u>tough,</u> there has been many deaths<u>. W</u>e are being stationed in <u>F</u>ort Wagner and our food is mostly meat and <u>vegetables</u> and fruit when in season. <u>In</u> my spare time I <u>usually</u> play instruments<u>.</u> <u>T</u>he winter is very cold and the summers <u>are</u> very hot. The fighting was very hard, lots of people are <u>injured.</u> The <u>medicine</u> is very helpful, lots of the soldiers that got sick are <u>healthy</u> again. <u>T</u>he thing I miss from home is you.
Stay well love,
William
Explanation:
The letter has very good ideas. You just have a few spelling, capitals and punctuation mistakes. Above, I edited the letter with the mistakes in <u>bold/underline</u>.
Here is a summary of edits:
Spelling:
*vegitables => vegetables
*Im => in
*usaly => usually
*indured => injured
*heathly => healthy
Capitals:
*fort => Fort
Commas:
*The war has been tough,
*The fighting was very hard,
*The medicine is very helpful,
New sentences instead of pause:
*..... there has been many deaths.
*..... I usually play instruments.
*..... lots of people are injured.
Other:
*Find a new word for '<u>tough</u>', maybe '<u>difficult</u>'. At the time of the civil war (1860s), people usually did not use this word to mean hard.
*the summers <u>are</u> very hot. You were missing the verb 'to be'. Saying 'are' in this phrase is like saying 'is' for "the winter is very cold".
*I removed the 'And' in '<u>And</u> the thing I miss from home is you'. You do not need it in this case. Also, you usually do not start a sentence with 'and.
*I also switched the last two sentences because it makes more sense to talk about missing Mary last.