Palmyra March 22^nd 1863

 

Dear Brother

            As it is sunday I will try & write you a fiew lines to let you know how & where I am hopeing they will find you well & happy. as for me I am not very well I have had the diptheria but am better now I am so I can get around I am now at home I have been here three weeks. but I wish that I was back in the army again for Palmyra is one of the worst god forsaken places I ever saw. nobody to talk with but theas heigh ass preps & they dont know enough to last them over night. I want to hit a fiew of them a swat / across the jaw & you can bet if I get a chance I will do it

 

            I will now tell you a little about the billiard match that went off last night betwen W^m Jenner & James Palmer & two young men from Clyde the Palmyra boys got cleaned out by 51 points. it was a good game they played a game of 600 points they did not play for anything but a supper.

 

            if you know when you are well off you will stay where you are for if you should come home you would not want to stay here it is so lonesome you would not know what to do. I will go up to the vilage & stay a little while then I will come down home again & stay a while then I do not know where to go. nothing to do or nothing to see everything is all still /

 

well I do not know of any news to write this time so I will have to close by askeing you to write soon. mother is agoing to write to you today & if there is any news she will tell you all. John has just come in and he wants me to send his best respects to you he is very much afraid of the draft he thinks that he will have to go. I am now agoing to write to my Colonel & tell him if he will give me the position of first Lieut I will go back & I think that he will for he wants me to come back. Lieut McIntyre has come home on a leave of absence for 10 days he will go back next monday he wants to stay longer but he cannot tell Capt Underhill that I hope that he will give those rebels hell under the shirt tail /

 

well good by for this time pleas write soon give my best respects to the graham boys and David Heath remember me to Ordearley Pritchard from youre brother

 

E. A. Hibbard To W^m Hibbard.

 

I am Lieut no more

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