Brashaer City Feb 22^th, 1863

 

Dear Wife i will take time this pleasant sabath morning to ansur your kind & welcum letter which i resieved this weak & was glad to hear from you & that you was well i am well exsep sum lame yet i hope that those few lines will find you engoying good helth i hope you had a good time at the weding their is a man in our Company that knows anna husband he speaks very hily of him won more of our brother solgers has gon the road to return no more he died the 21 is to be buried to day at 4 O clock his name is Fileps the young man that worked for John Hays a fine boy. to Charles Vandyne is very sick but not dangerous i hope he will get better & all the rest of them their is 50 sick in the Ospittle it is very sickley hear i dont know what it will be when it gets to the warmist months / i hope the devlish war will be over before that time their is more dies by fever than gets kild in battle we are in the most un healthy part of the suthern states my health is very good i caughf more than i did on the start but not eny more than i did at home i dont think it will a gree with me down hear in hot wether but i shal buy it i dont se but what i shal hafto live in hopes but hopes is of now we hear the work is not hard but it is so lonsum a hanging a round the camp no whair to go if you want to go eny whare you have got to go to the Cornal & get a pas he is won of the meanist men that i ever met with he is a reglar old grany i pity him if ever we get in to battle the hole regmant is down on him & he will find it out so bim by honey do you think of working out dos Frankey work at Butterfields yet has Ezry got home yet honey you must right to Maria / & not have hur get of the notion of moving to Palmyra i have rote to hur it will seam plesant to have you all living clost to gether a gain in Palmyra i hope that i shal be their be fore many months to engoy the comforts of life i think i shal know how to engoy them if ever i get home a gain we air camped clost to a peach orchard & it is in blosum thay look very nice the feald look green & plesant but for all that i rather live north i cant think of eny more at presant i will right more next time give my love to al & keep a good share for your self honey have you got that 30 dollars that i sent you i have resieved al of your letters & stamps 8 papers i wish you wod send me the Rochester union wonce & a while direct your letters to New Orleans

Company B 160 Regt N.Y.S.Vol

            Genral Banks Division

 

right soon honey from your husband

W^m. H. Hi /

 

i expect more pay next

month i hope we will

get paid a gain then i will send

you more i am a going down

to the river to wash good by honey

 

            right soon

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