Camp Reeno Brashaer City Feb 15^th 63

 

Dear Wife i will take time this plesant sabath morning to rite you a few lines to let you know that i am well at presant & hope those few lines will find you engoying good health their has ben 3 mails in & no letter for me i resieved 2 papers & was glad to get sumthing to read from home i notist they was Walkers papers air you to work their if you are all right but dont work two hard we stil stay in this lonsum place yet we havant had eny battle yet but we ectspect won evry day let it cum the quicker we all fight the quicker the war will be closed i hope it wont be long be fore their will be peace cording to the rebels a count they ar pirty hard up for evry thing i will send you a paper next time i get won if the papers hear air trew their will soon be peace by July / i hope keep up good corag honey that the way i do we have very eazy times hear but i dont know how long it will last all that trubles me is hot wether & muskeetoes our company all got muskeetoes bars so they cant truble us nights those bars air about 6 feet long & 3 ft wide they air maid of linen corse like a fine sive the top is factory we hang them up by strings & get on the in side of them the moskeetoes hum a round al night but they cant bite the news just came in from the hospitle that John Beacher just died his sister works for William Doran or did when i was at home i guess you didant know him that makes 6 deaths in our company with the fever their names Clark Heath, Joseph Packard of Meridian Mr Boardman of Auburn, Thomas linkon of Meridian, Mr Phileps of Palmyra the young man that worked for John Hay John Beacher died this morning the most of them when they air taken sick they give right up & think they must die they fret & stew & kill them / selvs their is a great many that haves the fever they keep up good corage & get well John Beacher freted & stewed so mutch that he kild him self Charles Vandyne kept up good corage & has got well & several others the docters tel them that they kill them selvs a woring expect that we all will have a trial of it it aint very plesant i dont suppose if i am taken down with the fever i shal try & get better if i dont get better i will get wors i suppose i havant had eny ansur from that letter that i rote to Maria a bout a month a go has she give up moving to Palmyra i dont supose you had time to make those shirts & send them by James never mind them if you didant i can get a long with out them but they wod cum very good in this hot climate no more at presant rite soon give my love to all of my friends if i have got eny & i guess i have keep a good shair for your self from your husband W^m. H. Hibbard /

 

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Company B 160 regt

N.Y.S.Vols

            Genral Banks Division

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