Camp Convalescent. Dec. 30

 

Friend Lottie.

                        I will try to pen a few lines to you this evening you may think it strange that I have not written before this I can tell you precisely. after I was sent to the hospital at Georgetown I expected to be sent to New york I got ready to go one day but the party that I was to go with did not go as they expected although we was told that it was probable we should go soon. but it seems we did not go as expected and I knew it was no use of writing untill I got settled down in some place. I think I have got settled down for the present. I have been detailed to work building barracks about three miles opposite Washington / They are building a large amount of them. We get forty cts. a day extra which amounts about 25. dollars per month. Which is better to to do nothing I should have went to the Regiment two weeks ago if I had not been detailed here I have not heard from Wallace since I left the Boys. I suppose he was not injured at the Battle of Fredericksburg. I have seen some of the Boys that was wounded there I presume you have heard from him since the fight. I have not heard from C. P. since. Lydia wrote to me before I left Sharpsburg in fact I have not heard from no one except from home by way of my Brother. I have seen him a number of times since I came to Georgetown. He is getting along very well.

 

My health is not very good yet but hope it will improve I have / many things I would like to write but want of time forbids. I want you to understand that I do not owe you this letter. I wrote a long letter to you before I was sick and have not heard from you since. please write soon and tell Cass and Lyd also Perrys folks to write. unless you all imagine I make sport of your letters. as. some. do. please inform me.

                                                                       

Write soon and oblige your Friend

Horace G Babcock

 

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good. Night

 

P.S.

 

            direct to

                        Horace G Babcock

            New Convalescent Camp

            Near Fort Barnard Va.

            Care Cap Chamberlain

 

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hod Babcock

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