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Nokesville Va March 12th 64 My Dear Augusta: Your good long letter of the 5th reached me last night. One end of it was open, the mail having got on its way here from Division Head Quarters. It however fared better than some of the others, the envelopes coming entirely off and the superscription being rendered illegible. I have set down to answer it…

Nokesville, VA March 10th 64 My Dear Wife, This has been a most dreary, dismal, rainy day, which I suppose to enliven this evening by writing to you. In your last you ask about the insurance on our house. I do not think the policy expires until next year. You have the policy however, and can look at it and ascertain. It would not cost much to renew…

Nokesville Va. March 7. 64 My Dear Augusta: Yours of the 29th (dated) but post-marked the 2nd, reached me last evening, -- so that our letters passed each other between this and Washington. Maj. Giddings had been ordered into the field; if he comes, he will take command of the Brigade and I shall return to my regiment. He will probably come, not…

Nokesville March 5th 64 My Dear Wife: Yours of the 28th complaining that you did not receive a letter on Sunday or Monday came to hand this Saturday evening. Two reached me on Monday evening, but none since. So, you see I have a right to complain of the mail, too. I wrote to you on Monday and Thursday -- the first letter contained $20, and I hope…

Nokesville March 3. My Dear Wife: On Tuesday I sent you a letter containing $20, which I hope will reach you safely. This morning I placed $120 in the hands of Mimmack who is to send what is left of it, after paying the tailor's bill, I spoke of, in a check to you. When you receive these sums you will be in funds, and I hope hereafter to be able to…

Nokesville, Va. Feby 29th, 1864 My Dear Wife: Yours of the 21st and 24th reached me this evening. How one came to overtake the other I don't know, but it has been the cause of two or three disappointments to me. You see we have not moved yet. I thought it doubtful whether we should leave in the first place, and I am more confident now than ever,…

Nokesville Va Feby 27 64 My Dear Wife: I was very near commencing "Sir." -- My Commissary has just rec'd a letter (10 P.M.) directing him to have three days *rations* ready for a start early in the morning! What it means I don't know, but I have very little belief that we will move early in the morning. To be on the right side I have commenced a…

Feby 24th 64 My Dear Augusta: I must plead guilty to letting our 17th of Feby anniversary pass without recognition. That day was very cold here and it was all we could do to keep warm, in fact we couldn't do it at all, and sentimental ideas did not flow at all. Notwithstanding, I believe I wrote you, as I find my diary says I sent you a letter on…

Nokesville Va. Feby 19. 64 My Dear Augusta: Your letter containing the news of the death of Mrs. *Pierce* reached me last night. The sad intelligence was not unexpected to me, as she has seemed very frail for some years. Her death must have been very distressing to the family which has lived thro' so many years without encountering the changes that…

Nokesville Va Feby 17. 64 My Dear Augusta: We are having a taste of winter to-day. The wind shakes the canvass walls of my house and makes so much noise that I cannot write very satisfactorily. You have misapprehended my suggestions about Frank. I certainly had no idea of stimulating him with alcohol, -- he will probably take that on himself quite…