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Near Bealeton Dec. 21 1863 My Dear Wife: I wonder if you have rec'd any letter from me yet. The last from you was dated the 13th, eight days ago. This is a good while to be without any thing from you, and it is the more annoying because there are some things which I write especially to hear from you about. Have you got my pay account cashed? Have…

Near Bealeton Va. Dec. 22. 1863 My Dear Wife: Yours of the 16th + 17th was rec'd last evening. I am glad you have at least got some of my letters, for I was beginning to get discouraged. Several of yours must have miscarried, as I never rec'd any acknowledging the check or the key. You say the trunk was open - did anything appear to be taken out of…

Camp Near Bealeton Dec. 21st 1863 My dear Augusta: Three weeks ago to-morrow (Sunday) we marched to this camp; to-morrow we march back to the place we left to come here. So you will get no more letters from me from this place, for some time any way. I shall not go with my regiment, but directly to Washington, on a 48 hours leave. I have heard not…

Camp near Brandy Station May 1. 64 My Dear Wife:Your letter of the 24th reached me at our camp near Bealston. We left our camp yesterday morning at 8 o'clock and marched to near Bealston. The day was warm, but the march was quite pleasant, and as as I could take my own time, the men were not much tired. The march however was not a very hard one. We…

Camp near Centreville Oct 17. 1863 My dear Augusta: It is just a week to-night since I last heard from you. We rec'd a mail yesterday, but to my intense disgust it bro't no letter from you. I got newspaper containing an account of your Union Convention. - I wrote you day before yesterday giving you some account of our marching and countermarching…

Camp near Culpeper C.H. Va Oct 7. 1863 My dear wife: Your letter of the 30th ult has just been a week in reaching me. I wrote to you on Sunday, to Priscilla on Monday, and to Howard yesterday, and now am writing to you again. And for all this writing there is very little to write about. -- My hay fever is almost gone. I have one attack in the…

Camp near Culpepper Sept 23, 1863 My Dear Wife: I have just rec'd your of the 13th and I assure you it has done me a deal of good, though it made me more homesick than your letters generally do. That you know is the usual effect of letters from home, but its never so greater when you are hoping soon to hear the dear *over* of your family. I wrote…

Camp near Culpeper Va Sept 29th 1863 My dear Wife: To-day I got three letters from you, the latest dated the 21st. I have been pining to hear from you ever since I got your last. Some how we have not rec'd a mail, until to-day, since your other letter came to hand. Every body was growling and wondering why it was so, but to-day we all got letters…

Camp Near Culpeper Va Sunday Morning Oct 4. 63 My dear Wife: Notwithstanding I have heard nothing from you since my last I have set down this morning to my old Sunday occupation. - First before I forget it again, I will answer your inquiry in regard to fuel. You cannot draw it at Dayton. Mrs. V. and others drew it for a while at F.H., but they were…

Camp near Germantown Va Oct 15th 1863 My dear Augusta: I suppose you wonder why you do not hear from me, - at any rate you will before you do. I will explain my silence satisfactorily tho' not as fully as I will after we have finished the campaign if I am lucky enough to get thro' - Last Saturday morning, General sounded at 2 A.M. very…