Camp Hancock near Fredricksburgh Virginia

Aprile 16^th 1863

My dear wife I am engoying good health at present and do hope that you are also well dear Musy the paymaster arived in this Camp this morning and paid us for six month and one half leaving two months of our pay back I received eighty five dollars and forty five cents I will enclose in this letter to you ten dollars I hope it may go safe I want to send you seventy dollars the preacher/of this reagement is a going home he lives in center County Myself and the rest of the Brookville boys is agoing to give him what mony we want to send home he will carry it to harrisburg and express it their directod to squire Marland of Brookville and he will hand it over to those persons it is directed to I will send in this club to you sixty dollars you will please call on Squire Marlin when you receive this letter and if it goes safe thy will will be sixty dollars for you/I have thought this to be the safest way to send it to you when you receive this mony I wish you to pay doctor Macklin his docter bill and please give Mary five dollars and tell hir I sent it to hir to by William Hary Thompson a sute of good Clothing for my namesake

The rest of the mony I want you to use as you may nead it

dear Musy we are now under marching orders on yesterday we had eight days rashians ishued to us and we do not know/what hour we may leave this place to go into a battel every prepperation is making to fite the rebels at Fredricksburgh I have not time to write any more at this time dear Musy this mony I send you is is parr and is eaqueal to gold and silver if you get any of it changed be carefull in the notes you get in change I would not take any change unless it is parr mony all the greenbacks are par write to me immediatly after you receive this letter direct direct as you have been doing the letters will be sent after us now my dear musy I bid you an affectinate goodby for the present

WRodgers to Sarah Rodgers

give my love to all the friends  good by my dear Musy for the present WR

 

dear Musy in my letter I forgot to tell you that Doctor Hitchold left this Camp on yesterday morning on a visit home I did not know that he was agoing or I would have sent this letter by him to you if he has not left Brookville on his return to this place if you could sea him he could tell you about me

                                    your Affectinate husband

                                                            WRodgers

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