Carver Hospital

Washington D.C.

Friday Dc. 4^th 1863

 

Dear Father I now take pen in hand to write a few lines to you and to the rest the last letter i received from home i sea ther was nearly every one of you had a hand in writing so now i will have a hand at the whole of you I am now in very good health hoping these few lines will find you in the best of health and spirits. there is not mutch nuse here at present the top or dome of the Capitol is now finished the Godess of liberty was raised day before yesterday there was loud chearing and a general salute fired from every fort around / the City the Russian fleet came in yesterday and are now ancored between Washington and Alexandria they are regular old mud scows. The City begins to be thronged with senators and representatives and soon the Capitol will be in full bloom this session promises to be the best that has been for years as i have to write to the rest i shall have to write a short and sketchey letter the health of the men here is rapidly improveing there being but very few deaths in some time. Hoping to hear from you soon i will proceed to the nex

                                               

I remain as ever

Your loveing Sone

WAClark

 

 

Carver Hospital

Washington D.C.

Friday Dc. 4^th 1863

 

Dear Mother

                        I am not an earend boy now but a soldier but as i am i have time to think over the past and bright imagination sayes to me look to the future as I received a letter from home and all had a word to say i thought it my duty as a sone to try and pay as fas as i was able each and every one this has been my motto and i hope it ever will be you are far a way from hear but you all are brought nigh by thought and by reflection on the past i can sea / that i have not done my duty to my parents but i hope to live to sea the time when i can pay as the Good book sayes 10 fold but now we will let the past drop I am in good health i suppose if i was home i should call my selfe well but as i am not and here under the Doctors care i call my self sick but i can eat my rations and look out for no one isl asure you hoping these few lines will find you in the best of health and blesed with abundance if I can help you any or any of you let me know and i will do it with pleasure. leaveing you all in the care of him who doeth all things well i will close hoping to hear from you soon I remain as ever your loveing sone.

W^m A Clark

 

 

Carver Hospital

Washington D.C.

Friday Dc. 4^th 1863

 

Dear sister Jane

As i was writing to the Family in person i thought it my duty to write to you in answer to your many letters I am in good health hoping these few lines will find you strong and harty also able to eat a good plate of pork and cabbage or if kneed be a sparerib of a pig or some sutch dish as that also able to make your kneedle fly fast enough to cover your back as well as fill your mouth. I received a letter from Pheebe the other day and i saw you had a sort of a plot / or combination against or for me so i took the hint and without further seremony i started on my earend after dinner and oing to the short space of time i shall have to give you a short letter hoping these few lines will find you full as well as i antisepate and if any thing better i shall have to bid you good after noon and proseed to the next in rank hoping to hear from you soon and often i will draw my short letter to a close I remain as ever your loveing Brother

W^m. A. Clark

 

 

Carver Hospital

Washington D.C.

Friday Dc. 4^th 1863

 

Dear Sister

Josephine I now take up my scratching iron to inform you of my where abouts an also of the state of my health I am still in the old spot as you will sea by the heading of my letter. I am also in very good health for i can eat my rations very well and once in a while i can kick up my heals as well as the best of the boys once in a while i have a skuffle with some of the boys to try my strength and also to get / a little shaking up for exersize now and then we let a rat get into the room and then 5 or 6 pitch on to one rat i know it is a little cowardly for so many but it is fare and if you was here to sea the boys fly around and hear them laugh and tumble over bedsteds spittoons &c you would burst your gizzard i think for i came near it one night my selfe some of the boys got their shins near broke by comeing in contact with a stick so goes ower days here as it is late i will proseede to the next hoping to hear from you soon i will close I remain as ever your loveing Brother

WAClark

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