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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. 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 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 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 Rappahannock Station Dec. 3 1863 My Dearest Wife: I scribble a note to let you know that I am safe and all right, because the newspapers have undoubtedly greatly excited you *from ever writing me*. We/Ive have been over the Rapidan. Trying to get a fight out of Robert Lee but failing to do so on *? ?* terms. We have come back and I shall…

Camp Near Peola Mills Nov 25th 1863 My Dear Wife: Yesterday morning when I got up I had little expectation of having an opportunity of writing to you so soon. The night before an order had come for us to march at 6.30. We had strict orders to allow no large fires to be lighted at night + to prevent the burning of the *huts* and every other…

Camp Near Peola Mills Nov. 24. 1863 My Dear Wife: I rec'd the socks + pin-cushion last night. The socks are just the things and I do not doubt that I shall get a great deal of comfort out of them. I am very much obliged, but sorry you put yourself to so much trouble to finish them so soon. Sella present is a very nice one + besides I needed it; so…

Camp near Peola Mills Nov. 22. 1863 My Dear Wife: I read yours of the 15th last night. It seems to be a long time before I hear of the receipt of my letters. It will be two weeks to-morrow since mine of the 9th was written, and an acknowledgement of its reception was only recd last night. I have written three letters since, I think, in one of which…

Camp Near Peola Mills Nov 19th 1863 My Dear Wife: I wrote you yesterday but as I wish to send you some flowers picked up along our march I have sat down to write again to-day. First I wish to say, what I have thought several times of saying, that I owe a bill to John R. Ackerman, tailor, New York City. I forgot to settle it my self before leaving…

Camp near Peola Mills Nov. 18th 1863 My Dear Wife: Yours of the 12th came to hand last night. I am sorry you are putting yourself to so much trouble to get those stockings finished. During the present pleasant weather I don't need them, and may not for some time, if we remain in camp. It is on the march that I need them most, so as to be able to…