Batonrouge Cort House Hospital

ward 7 Aug 23/63

 

            Dear Lib I recieved your good & kind letter a few dayes a go one of the boyes came up from the reg and brought it to me you wrote it the 26 of July it was a good letter and I was anctios to hear from you I am feeling very well bot I have the ague chils in my limbs my wound is heald up bot I cant step on my foot yet there is a hunderd more men come in to this hospital from port Hodson the reg has all had marching orders I dont know where bot I guess to mobille I guess Leroy haint going home he is a goodeal better I was in hopes they would send him home dear we had a fight hear in front of the Hospital last night one of the nurses got drunk & got mad at the cook and the cook knocked him doon and it wound up by pooting the dronking man in the jale and that is right hear i thought / I should go to the reg bot I dont know when I shal go I will try & answer your letter dear there is a good many things in your other letters bot I cant think of them know I think dear you have got a foxy dress dear that dress of netties most be purty I think that is a good peace you spoke in your letter abought my geting a ferlow dear I wish I could get one bot I cant I would like to come home and get a clean meal bot I will wait another year I guess we dont get motch news it dun me good to read the names of the drafted men andrew millard & will hogland that dun my sole good as motch as it did the irsh woman that dear is what will poot down this rebellion if they can only get them down hear bot that will be a hard job dear I think dear you ought to of had a signer that is a goodeal of money to let one man have bot I guess it is safe for I think he is good for most eny amount bot it is a good idea to have a signer I guess / dear you are dooing as well as i am I have lost a goodeal of money for the last year bot it is all right i will make it up in the long run you sed in your letter that you was over to Mr Luis & mary had a beaux I think she is as sharp as ever bot I guess mary is a good girl I allwayes thought she was bot that is nothing to do with my buissness I think that mrs Talman has don well to get a girl she most of got it all lone as that is the story wheeler youse to tell she is a neat thing I would like to mary her my self bot I guess I have got all I can tend to the last night era from New Orleans thinks this war will soon come to a close it sed they was going to have a big meeting to washington I dont hardly think that they can settel only by fighting bot I hope they will bot it is a hard thing to settle bot I guess the rebs has got fighting anough if they haint they will 

 

dear Lib I never wrote so poor in my life or I did before in my last letter bot it was in the ink for if I take a little panes I can write very good with this ink bot I write like a streak of lightning I think dear that you nead not wery bot what I will be away from home a year yet for if the war would close to day it would be a good while before I would get home bot there never was a man had better faith & curage than I have got in our army and I allwayes did have all i have to do know dayes is to read your old letters and to look at the girles pictures this is all I will write know it is rather of a poor letter bot excuse and except this from your ever tru and kind Hosbond Loel C Hakes To Libey Hakes

 

tell rozill I will wright to her in a few dayes give my love to father & mother

 

write to my father so good by L C Hakes

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