Camp Hancock Near

Fredricksburgh Virginia

Aprile 27^th 1863

 

My dear wife I received your kind letter on last evening dated aprile 27(sic) I had been very uneasy to hear from you as I had received a letter from you a few days before informing me that you was not well which I was very sorry to hear you also state that you was not well when you wrote last which I am very sory to hear but I do hope that you have got better and engoying better health at present I wish you to write to me and let me how your health is I generialy receive a letter from you each week which I am very thankfull to you for and hope that you will continue to write to me often—

dear Musy I wrote three letters to you on the week before last which letters I/hope you have received before this time we ware paid six months and a half^s pay on the 17^th of this month I Received $85.35 cents on that evening I wrote to you and enclosed to you ten dollars and on the 19^th I expresed sixty dollars to you this mony was sent a package of other mony that the Jefferson County boys was sending home it was directed to squire Marlin with directions for him to hand it over to those to home it was sent this I hope you have received if you have received my letters if you have not yet received it call on Marlin and you will get it this mony when you receive it I wish you to pay doctor Macklin his docter bill and give Mary Thompson five dollars to by William Harry a new sute of Cloes as a present from me the ballance you will use as you sea propper dear Musy we have been under marching orders for some time back we have not left this place yet/but do not know what hour we will be ordred to move where it will be we do not know but we expect that thy will be a battel at Fredricksburgh scoone if we leave this place as I expect we will before you can receive this letter if I should not have an oppertunity of writing to you scoon dear Mussy do not be uneasy about me I will write to you as scoon as I can dear Musy I am with the blesing of god engoying very good health I way now ten pounds hiverier then I ever did in my life I do hope that you have got better and engoying good health at this time give my love to all my friends and now my dear Musy I send my love to you with 22 sweet kises from your Affectinate husband

WRodgers to Sarah Rodgers

I forgot to tell you that I sent my likenes to you please give it to Mary as she wrote to me to send it to hir your letter had 4 stamps enclosed in it good by dear Musy for the present

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