Washington DC

April 29^th 1865

 

Sister Sarah

 

                        Your letter dated Apr. 16^th was rec^d the other day I wrote a letter before I received your last we are still guarding Fords Theatre and have the promice of staying here as long as it has to be guarding it is a great deal easyer to do this duty than it is with the Regiment we have no drill have to stand guard 6 hours out of 24 go around / town as much as we please when not on post

 

            We rec^d the news last night that Gen. Johnson had surrendered his whole Army the Rebelion is now played out they have got no more Army of any concequence a part of the 9^th and 19^th Corps are lying around Washington I heard last night that the 120^th was doing duty in Richmond

 

            We had quite an excitement here the other afternoon somebody reported that he saw Booth the murderer enter a certain house dressed in womens cloths the house was on a guard was immediately put around the whole square a very large croud gathered in a fiew minutes, search was made but nobody found he has since been captured I should wish he could have been taken alive so that he could have been made to suffer more nothing would have been to bad for him. Frank Nelson talks of comeing / home with me his time is out about the same time that mine is we have always bunked togather and is a particular friend of mine I shall miss him when we are parted his home is in Pennsylvania.

 

            I had a letter from George Goodrich he is at Burkes Village Va. It is raining hard to night and it looks as though it would keep on all night.

 

            Well I shall have to close for I have got to answer Georges letter yet to night

 

Answer soon and all the news

 

From your brother

Milo A Jones Co. C. 24^th Regt

 

Next time you write tell me whare Unkle William lives I may want to stop there on my way home.

 

Tell Unkle George that I want him to answer my letter.

 

Three months and three weeks longer.....

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