Camp Near Fredricksburg                                                      March 15^th 1863

                                    Dear Sarah I take my pen this Sunday morning to inform you that for the last three days that I have been aflicted with the gaw and tooth ake pretty severely it is caused by cold that I caut and it settled in my write Jaw this morning my teath dose not ake but my Jaw is pretty sore yet I think that in a day or two it will be well we have had very rough and cold wether here for the last ten days it is the coldest wether here now that we have had since we came to virginia/but we think that this storm will scoone blow ove and we will get fine spring weather again

Dear Mussy the last letter I received from you was dated on the 28^th day of Febuary which is the last letter that I have received from you I was very glad to hear from you and the rest of the friends to hear that you ware all well this is the Second letter that I have wrote to you since I received yours I would like my dear Sarah for you to write to me at least once a weeak for I always feal uneasy to hear from you tell Mary to write to me oftener than she dose I always like to hear/from hir dear Mussy this day makes makes closes seven months of my time in the army to morrough we will have seven months pay due us we think that we will get our pay some time this month

Dear Mussy we are now under marching orders whare we will be taken to is yet a secreat to us but we think it is not fiting orders we beleave that we will be taken back of to Washington Citty or some other of the suthrin Cittys to be imployed as provost guards if this moove turns out to be the case and this regement selected as provost guards we/may not be in any of the battels this summr Jacob Haugh is still sick his sicknis he wishes to be consealed from his wife say nothing say nothing about him that his friends will hear Jacob may yet be buried in virginia Lewis Dibler and William P. Woods has been sick for the last four or five months thy have not done any thing but lay round at times in bed sick at other times walking around a little the doctors now think that thay are playing of for the purpose of getting a discharge from the army I think it will/not come out all write with them it is almost imposable to get a discharge here dear Mussy send me a Brookville paper ocasionly I still like to sea the Brookville newspapers the postage dose not cost but one cent on each paper the bairer of this letter is Manases Ker a soldier of this Company he is going home on a furlow he says that if he can make it sute he will call to sea you before he returns if he calls on you please use him as well he is an old friend/friend of Mine and if you talk to him he will give you a full histry of the times here and now my dear Mussy I close by sending my love to you to Mary and Oliver and their Childrin and all the rest of the friends I remain

Dear Mussy your Affectinate husband

I send you 22 sweet kisses good by for the present

 

WRodgers to Sarah Rodgers

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