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Camp near New Baltimore VA Oct 21. 1863 My dear Wife: We encamped last night just east of New Baltimore on a pleasant hill side, in an old orchard. About 25 yards from my tents is an old mansion occupied by a decent family. The mother is very *erivulent* : has two sons in the rebel army, one of whom left only yesterday morning. All the people…

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 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…

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 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 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 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…

Culpepper Va Sept. 22. 1863 My Dear Wife: We left Alexandria this morning at 8'o'clock & arrived at this place about one. The country between these two places was not as *desolated* as I had been led to anticipate. There was a good many chimneys standing with no houses near them, but the general *unclear* of the country is that of one which has…

Steamer Baltic Chesapeake Bay Sunday Sept. 20th 63 My dear Wife: Here I am again at my Sunday business, but in an unwanted place. We left New York on Saturday morning about 6 o'clk, passing Fort Hamilton at seven. We fired ten guns and dipped one flag, but *heard* no reports save from Church's store, the flag being dipped three times. The trip has…

On Board Steamer Baltic New York Harbor Sept. 18th 1863 My Dear Wife: I sent you a note yesterday, to let you know I was on my winding way. When I wrote we expected to leave yesterday; we failed to do so, however, and shall probably not get off till late this afternoon, which gives me another chance to drop you a line. I have packed up my things…