Campbell Hospital March 28

 

Dear Parents

                        I have just recd your kind letter am sorry to hear that father is unable to be around and sorry to hear that Loomis is sick the typhoid fever is the most prevalent disease of any in the Army it has been fatal in our regiment our Company having lost six by that disease but our Ward Doctor seems to know just how to treat it he has not lost a patient of that disease since I came here and but two of any other one of those had the chronic diarrhea the other lung fever I suppose that you have got the money that I sent by this time as I sent a hasty note to you I recd a welcome letter from Jerry this morning he is in good health and fine spirits he wants to have me come back and I should like / to verry much but I cant tell when I shall be the doctor has detailed me as nurse in ward nine and if I like I can stay here I suppose we have a sort of theatre here for the good of the soldier one or two nights in a week it is a verry good thing for we are pened up here here and it keeps up the spirits of the sick and wounded Jerry tells me that the 20^th are out of Kanes Brigade I am glad of it for we had the 124^th-125^th Pen of nine months men their time out in thirty days from to day they will be sent south to smell powder before their time is up both Regs were in the Antietam fight each lost from three to four hundred men I dont know whether I told you that I had a dream thought I was home on a furlough and evry thing seemed so natural that after I awoke it seemed as if was home untill I saw / the night lamps but you may think that I dont like soldiers life but if I have any health and if I could think that you were not suffering for wood and coal also that your health was good I think that I should prefer a soldiers life to that of a citizen my health is improving finely for me but doctor thinks that I had better stay here from what I can learn we have to go through a long process to get to our Regiment we have to go to the Soldiers Retreat from there to the Convalescent Camp at Alexandria from there to Straglers Camp which will take some time so I think on the whole that I had better stay here awhile I must draw to a close my letter will not go out till Sabbath morning and you will get it Monday

                                                           

Remember me to all

Your Affectionate Son George

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