Winchester Va. Saturday, May 10^th 1862

 

Dear Brother

                        Your letter bearing date sometime in April has at last found its way here and I will now write a few lines in answer to it. Henry rec^d a letter yesterday from Mollie. We was glad to hear from home, and we are much obliged to her for some of her hair which she sent in her letter. I can inform you that this is a beautiful spring morning, the sun shining very warm, and I can / further state to you that this morning finds us both in good health and enjoying ourselves extremely well. If all of our soldiers could have as easy a time as we have, there would not be as much complaining of hard marching, &c. We surely were very lucky to get into the position we are now in. We are still doing business in the Q. M. department but we are under another man. Our Quartermaster now is Capt. G. A. Flagg, and I like him some better than I did Capt Thompson I have not heard from our Regt for some time but I suppose they are at their post, doing their duty, as good soldiers. 

 

We have as good living as if we were at home. We are boarding with one Mrs Tewalt and she is a very nice kind of a woman, and besides there is a very nice young lady there also, and with which I am pretty well acquainted. She looks very much like Sarah Barnhill and appears to be a very industrious and lively girl. Well Sant I would like to come over one day this week if it were possible and help you plant corn, and then go to church on sunday at Clermont. This would be very pleasant indeed, but such cannot be the case. I go to church here almost every sunday. 

 

There is any quantity of war news, but as you take the daily paper, you will hear all that is a float. But I think that our army is a moving very successfully all along the line, and ere long the Secesh will be played out, and the old stars and stripes will again float over every state and every town, and every neighborhood, the same as they once did. That time I think is fast approaching. So I will close. I will write often, you do the same.

                                                                       

Your Brother W H Speer

 

Direct to W. H. Speer

Winchester Va

Care of Capt G. A. Flagg

A. Q. M.

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