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Camp in Tompkins Square Sept 8th 1863 My dear Wife: As my nice note paper is all at the Albemarle Hotel, I was obliged to resort to one of my old fashioned, ceremonial letters. I have had so much running about to do in the past few days that I must write this morning, as I may be ordered to *break* up camp at any moment + that would prevent me from…

Camp near 3 Mile Station Nov. 3. 1863 My dear Wife: I set down to-day to write to you, not because I have anything in particular to say, but because there is a rumor in camp and I think a pretty strong probability that we shall move tomorrow. The newspapers to-day bring us news that Charley Cathcart has been arrested for treason. This is a pretty…

Camp near Auburn Sunday, Oct 25th My Dearest Wife: We left our camp yesterday afternoon about four o'clock. It had rained all night before and a great portion of the day, so that the roads were abominably wet & muddy. About half past seven we got into our present camp, and not withstanding the wet, we soon had a good fire, our shelter tent…

Camp near Auburn Va Oct 28 1863 My dear Wife: We have not moved since I last wrote. Howard's letter reached me day before yesterday. The paper he mentioned *has* not yet come to hand. We recd no mail yesterday. When we get another I hope to hear from you again. If you should have a chance of sending to Washington I hope you will send me the three…

Camp Near Bealeton Station Monday Dec. 7. 1863 My Dearest When I wrote you last I had no idea that so many days would elapse before I wrote you again. I sent you a pencil note some days since, which I suppose you will receive to-day, but that I do not call a letter. The evening of the day I wrote last from our camp at Peola Mills, or rather the…

Camp near Bealeton Station Dec. 15. 1863 My Dear Wife: I wrote you a long letter on Sunday and rec'd yours on the 8th on the same evening. No letter came last night, so I am writing one myself to her whether that will bring me another tonight. I wrote to Robert yesterday, so my letter will be ready for him when he arrives. I do not think he will…

Camp near Bealeton December 8th 63 My Dear Wife: Tho' I wrote you a long letter yesterday giving you an account of my journeyings since I wrote last, I can not let this day, so dear to both of us, pass without at least a line from me. It is now ten years since we cast our lots together for weal or woe. The promises we then made to each other have…

Camp Near Bealeton Dec. 10 1863 My Dear Wife: A short time after I had mailed my last (the 8th), I read yours of the 29th which is the latest I have from you. - I don't know whether you have rec'd my trunk key - if you have please look over my papers and see if you can find an Ordnance Return of the Second Quarter of this year. I have some receipts…

Camp near Bealton Sunday Dec. 13 1863 My Dear Wife: I have rec'd nothing from you since Thursday evening when I got two letters, one of the 3rd and the other of the 6th. I am very hungry for another, but as I can not get one before the mail comes in the evening, I think I shall have to try how far writing one myself will go towards satisfying my…

Camp Near Bealeton Dec. 18 1813 Oh, but ain't I a disgusted Maw! Your letter of the 13th, my dearest, reached me last night, and in it you say, you have need no letters from me. What the plague is the matter with the mail? I wrote you on the 7th + 8th + both ought to have reached you before the 13th, even at poky rate at which our letters go and…