Thibodaux Jan 24^th, 1863

 

Dear wife i wil sit dow take time to ansur your most kind and most welcum letters which i receved the 23 & was glad to hear from you & to hear that you was well which it leaves me at presant i am sory to hear that that complaint is worse you must right a few lines and take take it to the dockter let him read it and he will give you sum stuf you wont hafto speak to him if it is wors you must have sumthing dun right a way you musant wait until i get home i wish i was at home to get it for you i hope you will get better soon Dear honey i resieved 3 letters all together i got them stamps / i got 8 in won letter & 1 in a nother the letters have ben a good while a cuming i have rote to you wonce a weak ever since i landed i wode of rote ofterner if i had of had stamps you musant wait for me to right you must right often i shal right as often as i can we have so much to do i dont get time we ar driling or on gard or on picket duty all the time most i am very sory that you are so lonsum you must ceep up good corage until i get home if i ever get home a gain i shal be glad i enlested i shal know a nuf to stay at home next time Dear honey you wanted to know how we lived we live very well we have beef poark coffa & tea bread rice puding indian puding we live very well for solgers we tent out in a large field James & William Hislup & Al Rychman / & i tent together we had a turkey & a hen for diner i cleand them & cooked them they was first rate their is sum talk of our going back to Neworleans to stay i hope that we will we ar 70 milds a buv new orleans now it is very nasty & mudy hear when it rains we have had sum pirty cold nights hear but the days are warm we have got 2 blankets a peas we took them in new york they cum very handy now you say that W^m Sampson is marrid & is a going to take his wife with him Dear honey he has a better chance to take take his wife than i have he is situated difrant than i am he can take his wife right a board of a nice vesel like a going in to a parlor it aint like being pushed a round from won place to a nother i dont think you cod stand it / to march 18 or 20 mild to a time Keep up good corage & stay at home their is 4 regmants hear & their aint but 2 woman hear i dont know whether they are or not Dear honey i hird that you was to work out i hope that you have got a good place & kind folks to work for i dont want you to work whare it is hard you know that i wodant let you work out if i was at home but i am a great wais from you & you are your one bos i was in hopes that you wodunt work out when i get home i wil make you pack your duds wont i honey icant think of eny more to right so i will draw to a close i have got them stamps & i will right to Maria & mother i havent got eny more pay yet i dont se why they dont pay us it is a going on 6 month now the Captain has ben sick for the last week he is well now Dear honey right soon if you dont get my letters it aint my falt i right often a nuf from your husband W^m H Hibbard

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