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04/03/186310/21/2018

Lexington Kentucky

My Dear Wife, You will recollect that in your last letter I wrote we were under marching order and expected to go to Tennessee, but we have arrived at last in Lexington. We left Newport News a week ago last Wednesday night about 11 o’clock on board the steamer Long Island¹ for Baltimore.… Read the rest

02/22/186310/21/2018

Newport News Virginia

My Darling wife, It is Sunday and a fearful storm is raging. It commenced last evening to hail and snow and it is now raining very hard. I am well and fat as any hog and growing fat every day. I received a letter from you dated Feb.… Read the rest

01/14/186301/07/2025

Camp near Falmoth Virginia

My Dear Wife, I received your letter night before last and was very glad to hear from you. I am not as well as I could wish but I feel in hopes that I shall be better in a few days.… Read the rest

01/09/186310/21/2018

Camp Near Falmoth Virginia

I received your letter last evening just as we were getting ready to lay down for the night and very glad I was to hear from you. I am enjoying considerable good health but I don’t rest well nights. I sleep very well until 1o’clock and then I wake up with some cramp in my back that it is impossible for me to sleep any more the rest of the night.… Read the rest

01/06/186310/21/2018

Camp near Falmoth Va

My Dear Wife, I received your letter last evening about 8 o’clock and was glad to hear from you once more. We are here yet in the same place but how long we shall stay is not known to us but we shall probably stay two weeks at least and we may move sooner.… Read the rest

01/04/186310/21/2018

Falmoth

I could not mail my letter last night so I will write more today. I am on guard today about ¼ of a mile from camp. The rest of the regiment except the guards are on a brigade inspection. I don’t think we shall move from here in some time yet.… Read the rest

01/03/186310/21/2018

Camp Near Falmoth Va

My Dear Wife, I received your letter of the 26th two or three days ago and should have answered it before but it has been busy times with us for a few days. We had marching orders the night I got it but we are here still and may stay here some time yet.… Read the rest

11/24/186210/21/2018

Camp Near Fairfax Seminary

My Dear Wife, I received your letter today just as we came in from drill and as you did not seem disposed to write much I will try to write enough to make up the deficiency myself. I have been sick and I am not very well now but I manage to keep about.… Read the rest

11/21/186210/21/2018

Camp Casey Near Fairfax

My Darling Wife I received your letter of the 16th today and was very glad to hear from you for I was very lonesome. All of our men are gone out on picket duty except Squire and myself. It is very rainy here.… Read the rest

11/16/186210/21/2018

Camp Casey

Received your letter last evening on my return from picket duty¹ but I have no time to reply except by writing a few lines as I have but little time. We have just been through inspection and in about half an hour we have got to fall in for services.… Read the rest

10/25/186210/21/2018

Washington

My Dear Wife I take the first opportunity of writing to you after our arrival in Washington, We left New York this Wednesday morning about 10 A.M. for Elizabethport N.J. From there we took the cars for Harrisburg, PA by the New Jersey Central R.… Read the rest

10/14/186210/21/2018

On Picket Six Miles West of Alexandria

We left camp yesterday morning at 8 o’clock to be gone until tomorrow afternoon for picket duty. One of our lieutenants was fired upon last evening and today we are ordered ———- any attack that may be made on our line of pickets but you must not give yourself any uneasiness for there is large force of rebels within thirty miles of us and there is at least three thousand men within one mile of as ready at a moment’s warning.… Read the rest