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Fort Hamilton Nov 23 1862 My Dear Wife: When you left me at the depot I left for home immediately, but I didn't get there till the next day. When I came to the bridge, I found it turned and two canal boats sticking fast in the mud! They had been there since five o'clock and as it seemed likely they would remain there all night, I went back to…

Written during my visit home [in upper right of letter; probably written by Augusta] Fort Hamilton Nov 21, 1862 a mistake in date [written in pencil below date] Dear Augusta: Yours of the 23rd reached me this morning. If you wrote, as you promised, immediately upon your arrival, the letter has failed to reach me as yet. Things are jogging…

Ft Hamilton August 19th 1961 I have been hoping every day, my dear Augusta, that I should get leave of absence and be able to go home and see you. It does not, come, however, & I can not tell, whether it will come at all, or when, so I have set down to write you a line to keep you from getting uneasy. I am so disappointed & disgusted that…

Fort Hamilton August 14th 1861 I was delighted to receive and read your excellent letter of Sunday. It is the best one you have sent me, my darling, since I have been away. I hope you have got mine informing you of my contemplated change of programme. If you have not now, as I write, you certainly will have tomorrow, unless you turn your face the…

Ft. Hamilton Aug. 13. 1861 I find, dear wife, I have raised expectations which are likely to result in disappointment. In conversation with Col. Burke, I was informed that he would approve my application for leave of absence for twenty days, & supposed then that nothing further was to be done but to secure Major Clitz' approval. This I…

Fort Hamilton August 12th 1861 My dear Wife: You may expect me home the last of this week, tho' I may possibly be prevented from coming. I could leave on Wednesday if there were not some prospect of a collision between the civil & military authorities here. I do not think any will occur, but I want to be at my post until the crisis is past. …

Fort Hamilton August 11th 1861 My dear Wife: Yours of the 7th reached me last night. I will answer Friend Bell today. I will attend also to Ricky *Thill*, myself. _ I am not prepared today to give you as specific directions in relation to the route you ought to take, as I wish. Tomorrow or Tuesday I will write to you, and I do not wish you to…

Fort Hamilton Aug. 7 1861 Yours of the 4th came to hand this evening my dear. I suppose you know by this time who is confirmed and who is not. At any rate I shall go to work at my house and try to comfortableize it for your reception. I shall set my "striker" to cleaning up the yard & making things snug. There is a small cook stove in the…

I send you a piece of the Ft Pickens flag Fort Hamilton August 5th 1861 I confidently hoped, my dear one, that I should hear from you tonight, but the mail brought no letter. Better luck tomorrow perhaps. You will find my receipt from the Comly's in the lower left hand pigeon hole of my desk, or in an envelope in one of the pigeon holes in the…

Fort Hamilton August 2, 1861 I took a long letter to you, dear Augusta, to the city & mailed it yesterday morning. You will probably, therefore, have a letter to solace yourself with on Sunday, if not, you will not be expecting any. I called upon Uncle Samuel's assistant treasurer yesterday and drew from him two hundred & six 61/100…