Washington May 6^th/65

 

Dear Parents and all

                        I have just received a letter from you dated the last day of Apr a week ago tomorrow

 

And being very much gratified as I always are in getting a letter from home I will endeavor to recompence you for the same by complying with your wishes and answer it imm immediately.

 

To day finds me in very good health my wound doing finely the gash acrost my shoulder is most heeled over the one acrost my breast is not so far advanced but doing well

 

the weather here is very warm and would be perhaps rather uncomfortable for a person to lay around in the house house if they had not got / so lazy as we Soldiers have but it suits us very well.

 

Father that dont talk very well for a fellow that you are looking to for to come home and work with you does it but I am afraid it is so.

 

Father I am sorry you used your self up so making sugar this spring for I think you had better let the sap of gon.

 

Olvin is here in the same Hospital with me but in a different Ward how I came to know that he was here we both was recommended for a furlow the same day and had to go up to the Chappel to be examined and thare happened to meet each other. untill then I did not know as he had been wounded and supposed he was with the Regt he was wounded in the right leg just above the ankle but his wound is doing well and / is so now that he walks around with out crutches.

 

About the furlows Father I dont think we eather will get one but I would not be at all disapointed if both got our discharges next week for that is the talk around here now.

 

Mother you say Ira says he did not know whare I was I wrote to him on the 27^th of last month but have received no answer from it yet so I think thought they are were on the march some whare but in today paper I saw that the Army of the the Potomac is all on its way to Washington so I guess they will all be up here before long and then I think they will be additions made to many a family through out the United States which will no doubt be very exceptable to the most of them / but I cant think of much more to write which I think would be of much interest to you so I will close by telling you that I remain as ever your affectionate and good wishing

 

Son   Wallace Stickney

 

PS. I must tell you that I received a letter from Lydia the other day which astonished me as much as though I had been nocked down, but she did not write much Clarinda had to finish it.

 

I dont think you had better answer this letter till you hear from me again or something else.

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