No 8                                                                                       

Bayou Beff Mar 27^th/63 La

 

            My Dear Wife I have a few lesure moments before batallion drill and I thought I would ockepy the time in writeing to my dear Lib a few lines I have ben to diner sarg Botner is writing and Hirom is laying on his bunk I feel well to day sarg Corbett I guess will do duty to morow I hope these few lines will find my dear Wife and netty well we have got things fixed up fine hear if we can only stay hear bot we cant tell what day we will leave I worked very hard yesterday fixing up our camp ground to drill on we have got a long seat in front of our tent and Leroy and Mert and Abe is setting on the seat talking I wish I could set in the seting sun with my arms around my dear Lib talking with her abought our past and what has got to pass do you remember the time before we got marid of seting in the citchen sunday in the afternoon you know I cut a boton of from your dress that was abought the time I began to love you you know that time we went up to garn Tuckers you know I sang I cannot ber to let you go I ment that evry word for you bot you did not know it I thought evry thing on you after that when we was coming home you / you know you set side of me the girles thought we was coming around purty fast wel I think we did to dont you bot when I went over to Vean Daveis to the donation I thought my cake was all do then you did not know as I was in ernest little Charly cut me right out farely but I know I could cut him out and so I did you and charly had quite a time Charly sed he did not know what he had don it was for something he could not do want it you know dear I never sed a word against Charly to you you know a great meny men when they cut eny body out they will run them down all they can haint that so bot I did not do it. I thought there was going to be battallion drill bot I have ben over to the maigers tent and he sed there would not be eny we have ben drawing hard tacts ever sence we came here till to day we draud bred to day the capt give me a pass this morning and I went over to the deepo he wanted mee to take a letter over to the male trane it went to new orleans at eight oclock I never see eny thing look so natcherl as they do it makes me think of wellsville and the old mill switch I think they would look more natcherl if I could see them over to Brooklin whare you took the cars when you went home it is the only thing that has looked natcherl 

 

I am looking for something evry day I think we have got to gane a victry purty soon we most do some thing I cant see how our men can lay still bot our men is dying of by the hunderds there is a good many more of our men that did then there is of the rebs I was in the hospital a few mornings before we came here there was a man sick that lived up by wellsville when we went to auburn capt vaught transferd him in to co G the co from almond his name was Honkiford he has ben sick quite a while that morning I was in he told me that they had let him go to far they could not save him bot I did not think he was very sick then and he died that night there has ben a affle hard rane and george rowly had a blanket in betwn the tents and they did not know it and it got as wet as sap we have got too knew cases in our com of the feaver Elias Randal he lives up whare hi Burrell lives barb will know him I guess and Wim Faus he lives up the plank I have ben looking and reading your old letters they are affle good I like to read them I guess I wont write eny more knot know I think I shal get a letter to night from you and then I will finish. good night Dear L C Hakes. Peaksly hill

 

Good Morning Dear Lib I am wel this morning Dear I recieved too letters from you last night one you wrote the 4 of march and the other the 8 I recieved letters from you a weak ago that you wrote / the 11 of march these letters I got last night must of laid over some whare the one you wrote the 4 want a very long letter do you think it was bot you sed father was writing I am glad you wrote what you did I did not know ho Jane Barnson was till I asked abe I had forgot what her mans name was that is to bad I youse to like Jane all I had against her she was sabiteeran I never could go that you know I hope wheal wont have to come hear this time a year I would like to see him bot it is so sickly here it would go hard with eny body to come hear this time a year. I think kait has don well tell her I hope that she will do wel I think that was a bouncer your other letter was mailed at scio when you was to home it is a loving good letter I like to read it you sed you was having troble that tickeld me you sed you slaped sis that made me feal bad I dont want you should slap her dear if you can get along without it and I know you can I dont know bot she is hateful bot dont slap her you sed you was looseing flesh I dont want you dear to wery we most not alow our selves to wery I know it is hard you know I am the same as you be eny thing that troubles you trobels me and you know dear that I have to look at evry thing on the best side while I am hear indureing hardship I have to sofer hardship more or les bot I am bound to stand it and it wont do for me to wery I have told you this as kindly as I could I think my lib of you and netty to and I think more of / her because she is your child I dont think you will slap her agane will you dear she is small and I haint to home and I haint think diferent abought it and I would if I was to home you sed that kate had a beau I hope she will stick to her text you sed it made you think of the time we set up we had a good time you know I was bound to talk abought some thing that you did not want to talk abought I injoied that time did you we had quite a talk going on the hill didnt we o dear I thought evry thing of you allwayes from that time we went up to the dance and my love haint failed me a bit yet you spoke abought my playing ucher with vaughan I have wrote to you abought it and told you that I should not play eny more I should not played if vaughan hadent asked me to bot I shant play eny more if he dos ask me to I never will lift another card while I am in the servis I dont think there is eny thing bad abought it bot it makes talk you know I am bound as I have sed before to come home a better man than I was when I left I was allwayes was a good man I bot we had some talk that we no nead to of had nothing very bad bot when I come home I am a going to live a hapy life with my dear Lib and netty. I jest poot the direction on a letter for Hirom he is laying around in the tent I am glad I have / glad I have good health dont you think dear I have wrote good this time I think I gain in writing I guess I can beat you a writing what do you think abought it I could not beat you when I was to home bot I can do it know you will see I have gained on some of the invelops I sent to you you sed you could play your part in the old bedroom I will bet we could work at it as old hans would I asked abe if he had sent his money and he sed he had not sent a peny what do you think of that I wont say eny thing abought it I have told him I thought he had better send it to his father he has got it in his pocket the ordly has got well and that throws the duty of from mee Thomas Peck that day he was on picket duty to breshear he stole a pictur and sold it to lieut Jones for twelve shillings and he sent it home it is a very purty picture and I want you to see it you go down to gemile Gones and tell her you want to se it that was got the same day that the spoon was got that I sent to you and the little baby I hope you will get that it very cuning dear Lib I will have to close I will send you a paper to morow or next day tell rozill I shal send her a invelop and a postedge stamp from your true and loving Hosbond

 

Loel C Hakes to his dearist Wife Lib Hakes

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