Company 'A' 102^d N.Y.V.

Camp near Middletown, Va.

June 21^st 1862

 

My Dear Grandpa & Grandma,

             Your long and interesting letter of the 9^th inst. came duly at hand a few days since and I assure you I was delighted to hear from you and doubly pleased to find enclosed in the letter such truthful and fine photographs of you both. I shall often look at them and think of the many happy hours I have passed with the loved originals.

                                   

I am very sorry to hear that our dear Grandma has been suffering so much from Diptheria and I trust that she may soon recover and enjoy that inestimable of all blessings 'good health'.

                                  

I often think / of you both, as I seem to see you sitting in your nice comfortable arm chairs listening to the news out of some daily paper which perhaps that good little girl "Louisa" may be reading, or, perchance at one of those old fashioned, good, green hill dinners in the new dining room with good Aunt Julia & everbusy Aunt Lydia sitting at the table and one of them saying "that when she was down town today, she had read a letter from Willie and he was still on the move and was marching still further into Virginia". I hope that the time may come soon when I can tell you all about my soldier's life and sit down with you all once again at a / tiptop dinner in the Green Mansion.

                                   

We are marching through a most lovely and beautiful valley, the mountains are on either hand and there are numbers of fine streams and creeks flowing through most every farm into the Shenandoah. there is the finest farming land that I ever saw in my life and there are thousands of bushels of splendid wheat which will all be wasted this fall because there is no help to gather it. we are encamped on the banks of a beautiful stream called "Cedar Creek" and all around us are Regiments of Inf'y, batteries of Artillery & troops of Cavalry and from the top of a hill I obtained a fine view of all of the camps and it was a striking scene. There are a great many pretty / girls in this country but they are all secesh and it is rather unpleasant to talk with them all as they are so loud in their sympathy with old Jeff Davis. Our Regiment is kept busy all the time and I have enough to keep me busy every moment of the day. we are looking for a fight and eagerly hope that we can have a chance to whip the Rebels.

 

Please give my love to all on the Hill and believe me same as ever your affec. Grandson.

                                                                                                           

W. N. Green Jr

 

Grandpa & Grandma Present

 

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W^m N. Green Jr.

In the Post 30^th June 1862

June 21

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