U. S. Arsenal Hospital

Washington D.C.

July 8^th 1864                                       

Eavening 8 Oclock

 

Thermomitor Stands 90

      

Dear Father Mother Sisters & Brothers I now take pen in hand to write you a few lines to inform you that i am well as usual I received your kind and welcom letter and was glad to hear that you wer all in sutch good health and more so to hear that Father was likely to save his eye in your next be sure and state how your eye is and what you are doing for it also how work is and wher you / are at work also give the particulars about Calvins folks give my best respects to Mr and Mrs Bartram also to Calvin and his family. There is one thing i like to sea in the letters that i get from home they all have something to say and when i get a letter from you all it seams almost like being there a short time then there is another thing i sea they all have some excus for not writing any more Jane sayes she must close for Josie to write Josie sayes she cannot write any more for she is lying in bed but Jessie beats them all he has a good excuse and also George for they boath say they / cannot write for want of knowlage that is a good reason and i will look over this for this time I am very glad to sea boys as small as Jessie & George writing so well in their next letter i should like to sea them try and give me the full particulars of the General nuse that is the health of all the weather the crops the garden the poultry that there is at home what kind of a cow what their occupation is and also how that old hen tasted

 

N.B. there is not mutch nuse here at present there is now 4 men sick in the hospital they are all able to go around the man that was burned so bad has nearly got well / he left here yesterday for his home he lives on the corner of West 16^th St and Q St North it is about 3 milds north of west from here. there was a large fire here the 5^th of July one whole square was burned to the ground. there is a very heavy shipment of ammunition to and from here daily a few days ago there was 70 shells sent away that was 15 inches in diameter and weighed before lodid 480 pounds it takes just 1 barrel of powder to shoot one of these marbles i saw 2 big stout darkies try to lift one of them but they could not lift it one inch from the ground yesterday there was about 20 thousand stand of arms came in from the battle field. there was also 4 brass Napoleon guns and caisons brought in that wer captured by Burnsides darkies near Peaters Burg. the taps have just soundid so i will give the patients their medacin and bid you all good night My love to all I remain your loveing sone and Brother                                                                   

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