Aug 30^th 1863

 

Convalescent Camp Virginia

My dear wife—Mrs Highold arived in this Camp late last evening I cold on hir this morning she is well and stood the Joreny very well she gave me a letter and two pair of socks which you sent to me she told me that she had sean you on the day before she left Brookville that you was well and had a great noshion of coming along with hir to sea me I new of Mrs Higholds coming and did expect that you would come along with hir I received a letter from you on the 24 of this month in it you stated that you had a nothing(sic) of coming with hir if you thought I would be agreed for you to come as scoon as I red your letter I wrote you an answer and told you that if you had any desire to come to sea me that I was agreed for you to come but this letter you could/not have received before Mrs Highold left Brookville to come hear it would have been a good chance for you to have come with hir as she is used to traveling and would have been company to you on the wrote wrode as I do not think that you could get here alone

Dear Musse your letter was was dated on the 24^th it contained your liknys and a number of stamps dear Mussy your liknes was a rich present to me I kised it a great many times and can hardly keep it out of my site ten minits at a time without looking at it. it is dear to me dear Mussy I think it is such a good liknes of you that I have been looking at it most all the time since I received it I think it looks so much like you and I think that you look better then what you did when I left home

I am also very much obliged to you for sending me the socks and the stamps for any thing that comes from you I receive/it very thankfully and apprise it almost as a rellick received from you

dear Mussy I was in Washington on the 22^nd of this month I expresed eighteen dollars to you and took a receipt for it and wrote to you on the 23^rd informing you of it I hope you have received it by this time write to me as scoon as you receive it. dear Musy I will inform you of the Misfortan I met with on the nite of the 26^th of this month on that nite when I went to bed I put my pocket book inunder my pillow as I always had been doing and sleeping on it as I considered it the safest place to keep it. in the morning when I got up I found it missing some person had stolen it in the nite when I was asleap I have not heard any thing of it since all the mony I had in the world was in it except one five cent note I had in one of my pockets I had six dollars in it which was all the mony I had and about 15 postage/stamps which I had saved from what you had sent me from time to time I also had the receipt in it for expresing the mony to you also another receipt for returning my gun to the gouverment after I came to this camp which gun I expect I will now have to pay for at the end of my time I consider it very lucky that I had expresed the 18 dollars to you when I did or that would have been stole two.

 

Dear Musy you wish me to let you know if thy could be any buisness that you could get into in case you should come hear I do not know of any at this time but will make some enquiry and write to you shortly again and let you know dear Mussy it has always been my intention to try and get a furloe to go home to sea you sometime late in the fall it is imposable to get a furloe at present without it is an officer or the buisness very urgant in case of sickness at home or somthing very urgant. it is not so hard to get a furlo in the winter when thy are not fiting and the armies laying in winter quarters I think that/I will get two months pay about the midle of September I can get along without mony I think to that time I am sory to hear of Grand Paps ilnes the canser is a very daingerous thing and I know that it is very hard to cure but I do hope that hisen has not run two far to be cured yet give my love to him also to Pegy & Elisa also give my love to Oliver and Mary Thompson & Childrin I now close for the present by sending my love to you dear Mussy and am so glad that you sent me your likeness

            This from your Affectinate husband

                        W.Rodgers to S. Rodgers

 

dear Musy I forgot to tell you that I am well and engoying very good health Mrs Highold says that I look better/now then what I did when I was at home I hope dear Mussy that these lines will find you also engoying good health good by Dear Mussy for the present your kisses was sweet to me and I send to you in return 25 kisses please except them

                                                                        Good by for the present

                                                                                    WRodgers to

                                                                                    Mrs Sarah Rodgers

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