No 13

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Camp Reno Brashear City May 13

 

                        Dear Lib I will write you a few lines and let you know how we are geting along I feal very well know bot I dont gain strength as fast as I would like to I am purty harty to eat we bought a codfish and paid 20 cts a pound for it it waid too pounds we thought yesterday morning we would have some made in to gravy so we picked some up and I went to the bakery and got some flower and we made some gravy and it went good so we bought another codfish this morning and made some more gravy bot it want near as as good as that was we had yesterday I will tell you dear how I made it I poot in the watter and I got to motch water in so I took the flour and desolved it and put it in and let it boil and it want thick anough so we desolved some more flour and poot in bot it want thick anough the trobel was I got to motch watter in the first place bot we will have some more tomorow morning and I will tell you dear how it goes we dont get eny knews I have got a paper that colnel Van petten has complemented the redg 160 I will / send you the paper dear lib I am lonesom hear and I think I shal join the reg there is a boat going out the 17 of this month and I will finish this letter tomorow and there is a male going out the 21 and I will try and send you another letter then we expect to get a male to night o I would like to get a letter from you I am going over know to get a paper and see if there is eny letters so good by dear Lib L C Hakes

 

May 14 dear Lib I will finish this letter know I did not get my male last night bot I think I will get one to night the docter of this reg requested me to inform Thomas Peck mother of his death he died yesterday morning and was berid last night at five oclock his mother lived in wellsville I did not know her name is I rote to sam Baldwin and I told sam to send you the letter Thomas was a good boy I allwayes liked him he is the one that got that baby and give to me and I want you should keep it to remember him he tented with george rowly and del Luis Ed gowdy they will morn over his deth / all of the boys thought a goodeal of tom that makes one more in co H that makes three Thomas died with the feaver he haint ben well for a long time the docter sed he would get up nights and go to the bio and drink watter we got good knews last night threw rebel sorcees that hocker had got fredricburg and had destroid stonewall jackson the knews is dredfol good and I hope when I get eny male I will hear of a big victry in virginy I think dear the thing looks good know and I believe it is going to keep on looking good I expect to hear to night that our men has got port hodson our gun boats have ben up there bombarding and they had drove the rebs away from thear lower battries and I think we will drive them way from evry batry they have got our men is going in Genel Grant was mooveing on vicksburg from too wayes I tell you dear if there dont eny thing hapen and I dont think there will we will poot this rebellion doon in three months / I wrote a letter to Cate and I never wrote sotch a poor letter in my life you will see the start of this letter is wrote poor and I went and bought some good ink this morning and I can write better with it I have ben to sleep this after noon I haint felt quite as well to day bot I feal very well tonight dear Lib we had a good breckfast I could not fix the gravy as good though as I could the first time I cant make it as I did then I tell you dear that my straw bery sauce hangs on good yet I have got it most eat up how glad I am to think that you sent the box the botter keeps good yet and I have good liveing I sepose you have broke up keeping house and I ought to send this letter to scio bot I will send it to wellsville till I hear you have mooved dear lib kiss nety for me wich I sepose you do and save lots of kisses for you self From your Hosbond

 

L C Hakes to his dear wife Lib

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