Co. "B," 160^th Reg't., N.Y.S.V.

            H. P. Underhill. Capt.,

            L. L. Wheelock, 1^st Lieut.,

            James Kelley 2d Lieut.

 

Auburn Oct 23^th, 1862

 

my Dear Wife

                        i wil ansur your most cind & welcum letter which i resieved the 22 & was glad to hear from you & that you was well but i am sory that you feel so bad Dear honey, i am well & ingoy my self throw the day, but when night cums i am so lonsum that i cant sleep my mind is on you all the time i think of you night & day but more nights Dear honey i am sory that the folks are duning you so but you gust tel them to wait you must make them bleave that you are agoing to pay them when i send / you the money Dear honey when you get the money dont let them know it tel them that i toock it with me & you tel Julia to cis my a foot i wil right hur a letter that she wont like i bet if i dont it wil be my falt i dont thank folks to buse my wife when i am gon a way if i ever live to get home again sum of them wil cetch hel or i wil & dave sanford is won of them the darnd shit duning you for 5 cts & what bisnis is it to Julia what we do with our money & what bisnis is it to hur a bout the loung i am so mad that i cod shoot sum of them for useing you so when i am gon from home but i hope that i shal ce the day when i can cum home a gain Dear honey dond you go over their eny more i never liked hur nor tomas they think they / are so smart i never wil like them a gain i hate to think of them since Lory told me how Julia bused you they can go to hel & if you ever lend them a sent i never will for give you or lend them eny of your money eather if they cant have every thing that we have got they are mad Dear honey you spoke a bout a tickit Dear honey i had to buy won at the depo that tickit that i had want good for eny thing if it had i shodnot baught a nother you spoke a bout the slead i pade him 3 dolars & he gave me 2 and sold it square dear honey dont wory a bout such things i can make a nother when i get home if i had left it at home it wod ben broke i didant have eny to much money you wil think so if you cum down hear & i am a going to send for you be fore we go a way we shant go in 3 weaks / yet the cornel sed so Dear honey dont wory i wil send for you 3 days be fore we go a way if i had money i wod send for you now but i havent got but 8 cts if you shod cum i codant stay with their is no place for a woman to stay in a mild and a haf from the barax i rather you wod wait until i get my bounty i dont want to send it by eny body elce Dear honey you ceep them picturs until i get home a gain & then i frame them how do you like them honey they didant cost me eny thing their was a pedler hear & i toock sum for to loock & I sliped them in my bunk Dear honey i rote Maria a letter when last weak but have not had eny ansure yet Dear honey you herd of me a being in the gard hous did you i thot you wod Dear honey as far as beef soop is consurnd i rather have it than eny thing elce Dear honey i wil send for you soon dont wory you shal cum down hear be fore we go away i cant think of eny more at presant right soon honey send me a shiling worth of post stamps honey ceep up you corage tel a sirtin lot to cis your foot good by honey Dear Wife from your ever loving husban W^m Hibbard give my love to Mag & my folks & ant Dency my love

 

my love to you            i write wonce to rite what i want to

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