1^st PA Artilly

 

Camp near Bell Landing

April 1^st 63

 

My friend Louisa

                        your kind note of the 26. March. your long delay caused me to think you have forgotten your old friend. But you have given a good excuse, being not at home. your kind letter found me well hoping this may find you the same. the weather is cool and mud knee deep.

 

            I feel sorry for the misfortunes you have among the friends poor Landy, and Zimmerman are numbered with the dead. Louisa Emrick wrote me a long letter telling me the text and hymns sung on the occasion

 

            you spoke of Peter being at home I would like to see him once more. you also spoke of poor Henry I would like to see him. But he is like myself in a trap that he cant escape until this wicked war is over.

 

            you speak of the Singing School and the good times we had when we were at home. I hope if God spares my life that we can all enjoy much better times in the future than before. / I for one would love come home to see my friends once but how soon this will be I cant tell, perhaps soon and perhaps never. I must soon close, when you receive this, write soon, dont delay for I love to receive letters from my old friends, especially close home

 

            perhaps you think I have not used you nice, in times gone by, but I hope you will excuse me, if such be the case.

 

            from your sincere friend

                                    WHThurston

                        Battery F 1^st Pa Artillery

                                    3^d Division

                        Washington, D.C.

 

            Rueben, please hand this to Miss Louisa Wolf

 

WHThurston

Battery F 1^st Pa Artillery

            3^d Division

            1^st Corps

            Washington D.C.

in care

of capt

Mathews

Battery

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