Sept 8^th 1863

Convalescent Camp Virginia

My dear Wife

                        I have just received your kind letter to day it was dated Sept 2^nd and I haisten to answer it Ther ware enclosed in it two dollars, and some Postage stamps which I am very thankfull to you for sending as I had been entirely out of mony ever since I had my pocket book stole I have not heard any thing about it yet and perhaps never will

dear Musy I wrote a letter to you on yesterday and I have not any thing new to day to write to you except that I am well at this time and am agetting along here as usial I have not much to do and I get along very well the fox grapes is wripe here now and they grow here very plentifull I was out of Camp/about a mile on yesterday evening and I got as many as I could eat and brought a hankerchif full of them into camp thy are so plenty here that I could gether a wagon lode of them in a very short time thy are very good

dear Mussy in you letter you write to me that Robert Clements is drafted and is agoing to pay three hundred dollars and stay at home in my letter to you on yesterday I advised him to do so rather then come out here in frunt and run the risk of being kild by the rebels the easest way you can take it a soldiers life is a very daingers one the fifty dollars which you say he wants to borrough of you if you have it to spair you may lone it to him if you like to do so. you can take his note for the Amount of mony that you let him have I suppose he will pay you interest for it./

dear Mussy I think that J. G. Thompson charged you entirely two much Postage on the mony which I sent to you by express from Washington Citty At the time I expresed it I asked the Post Master here how much the postage would be on the package from Washington to Brookville he told me that it would be fifty cents Thompson has charged you fifty cents two much he came that game over me once when I expresed mony to you from Cockeysville in Maryland but the Post Master after a great deal of trouble refunded me the twenty five cents which you paid at that time as I had a receipt for paying the postage at the time I expresed that mony in this case I did not pay the postage here and it would cost more trouble then the thing is worth to get it back if the half dollar will do him any good he may keep it this time/

I do not think that I will express any more mony to you if that is the way thy charge for postage in Brookville I will hereafter run the risk and send it to you by mail although it is not as safe away to send it thy are very often men here that sends mony home by mail and thy say that it never gets home the twenty dollars that I loned to John Mcguire has not yet been paid back to me as I have not sean him since I left the reigement, I will write to him and tell him to send it to me about the time that I think that the reigement will be paid. The newspaper you told me you had sent to me in one of your former letters I think that it has been taken prisner some place on the rode it has not reported itsself in this camp yet. The paper you say you sent at the time you sent this last letter I have not received it yet either I hope these lines will find you engoying good health I send my love to you

good by for the present

                                    W. Rodgers to Sarah Rodgers

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