December the 6^th AD 1861

           

Dear Wife it is with pleasure that I embrace this opportunity to write a few lines to you hoping that they may find you in the same state of health as they leave me i was glad to get them letters from you with thomas George tuesday morning before breakfast the cakes and turkey went firstrate but I would rather been there with you myself but i had to be satisfied with the thoughts of it only. I am very much oblidge to you for the gloves and all I thought that the other letter would be the last from Camp Orr but i am glad that it was not but we do not know how soon we will we have only got the blankets the Captain has gone to Philidelphia / to get the uniforms which we expected on Saturday i do not think that we will be here long but we do not know for certain. i got a letter from thomas Davis yesterday he is well and sends his best respects to you and i got a letter from Benjamin forquer today they are all well i have just came from the prayer meeting in our quarters tonight We are going to have a debate tomorrow night there is three of us on a side the subject is whether the indian or the negro has the most right to complain of the White Man. i would like very much if you would come down to see us starting but i will not press you to come for i know that your feelings as well as my own are not any of the hardest i would like to / to write to my parents but i have not got time now. I do not want them to think that the love and respect for my parents is not banished from my mind but I think that is my real duty to write to one that I love better than life i am not joking. there is no chance of a furlough with particular business or I would have one after we get the uniforms i am sorry that i did no answer your letter sooner but it was impossible. Dear Mary the longer i am without seeing the stronger my affection for you I do not want you to think that I jesting the gloves that you sent is enough i think I can get along now I have not felt the cold this winter yet our quarters are quite warm i sleep very warm at night and i can eat / like a horse i hope that you are contented for I do not that I will be very long from you now. there is two more Whelchmen came into camp by the name of price the father has a brother in the reble Army with 30 000 men

 

I am sorry to say there is hard cases in our quarters the cards are getting played evry night But i hope that I shall be kept from it. I send Thomas Daviss letter with this.

 

give my best respects to my Parents and all my good whishers take care of yourself and answer this letter as soon as you can your faithful

Husband

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