November the 30^th AD 1861

           

Dear Wife i take this opportunity to write a few lines to inform you that i am well at present and hope that you are the same I received your letter yesterday dinnertime and i was very glad to hear from you i had been expecting it for several days and i was beginning to think that you had forgoten me. i am afraid dear mary that this is the last letter that you will get from Camp Orr the Captain came to camp today / and told us that we would leave here next thursday for Port royal South Carolina but i do not know whether theres any truth or not in his statements. they say that it is in the papers too i would like to see you again before we leave but i am afraid that i shall not but we must trust that it is not true and if it is I want you to contented while i am away. i am sorry that you put yourself with the gloves for i think that i can stand it if the rest can for i do not deserve it 

 

I received the cravat the day after i came here it has been good to me i forgot it till i was out of sight and i did not like to turn back for my feelings were not any of the pleasantest. I am writing now by candle light i have been informed that the Colonel has not received no orders yet and therefore when we will leave here tis only talk we cannot believe any thing that we hear and I may yet get a furlough i am sleeping with jake and John M Jones i hope that you will answer this letter as soon as you can /

 

for having enlisted and causing so much misery in your heart i much regret that i ever left you i hope that you will forgive me and trust to god that he will protect me while fighting the enemy that i may return home safe to live a life of happiness with you i have forgot myself Mr hendley has come in and i have been with to the gate do not trouble yourself to much i wrote to Thomas Davis last Sunday it is very mudy here now

                                                                                                           

Your true W^m Rees

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