Camp near Fredricksburgh

Feb 8^th 1863

 

Dear Sarah I take my pen this sabath morning to let you know that I am still engoying good health at present and I do hope that your self and all the rest of our friends are engoying the same blessing dear Mussey dear Mussy I have nothing of importance to communicate at this time we are still laying in our quarters attending to camp duty such as drilling keeping camp gard and picket gard and other duty such as the soldier has to do the week past has been midling cold and wet wethr such as mite be coled midling hard winter wether it has now moderated and to day mite be/coled a summer day of July in Jefferson County I was on picket gard on last friday and fridy nite on the banks of the Rapanick River which is our outmost post or line the rebel post and picket gard is on the oposate side The River which is about three hundred yards wide divide the two armys Fredricksburgh is on the bank of the river on the oposate side

Dear Mussy it is very sickly at present in this and all agoining camps men die very freonkly here dease is brought on by exposure change of climate &c on last Friday nite they ware eighty men died in the genereal hospitel This hospitle is situated/at the mouth of Cicqua creek at the Potomac river distant about ten miles from this camp each reigement has its own hospitle in their camp when these small hospitels becomes full of sick thy are sent to what is cold the general hospitel to make roome for the rest that may take sick in each reigement

Dear Mussy I wish to inform you that Henry Page came to sea me in our camp on last twesday he was in good health and looks well he was in the Burnsides slauter pen Battle faut at Fredrichsburg in december last his reigement is encamped about twelve miles from ours—he sendes his love to you Mary Snider and all the rest/of the friends I do not think thy will be any fiting done here untill spring the rodes are so bad here now and the rany seasing coming on that it is imposable to move this army thy would be shure to steck in the mud men horses teams and all Gust Haugh is well William P. Woods is still sick Jacob Halk is sick in the hospitel at little York, Pa. yet. we have not received any of our pay yet and it is now said that we will not get any for a month yet you will have to get along as well as you can as scoon as I receive any pay I will send it to you my love to you dear Mussy give my love to Oliver Mary & famly also Mary Snider and all the friends tweny kises to you Dear Musy from your affectinate husband

WRodgers to Sarah Rodgers

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