February the 3^rd AD 1862

 

Dear Wife i take my pen in hand to let you know that I am well and hope that these few lines will find you the same I have been expecting a all last week but have not received one yet I wondered this for I was so sure of getting I was afraid that you was not well I was dreaming last night about you. I have not heard anything about Sarah since I wrote before I tried to get a pass on furlough but I did not succeed there was about 14 / last week there time was up last night and today [?] was out it appears to me as if I had not heard from you for a month I was patching one day last week for a half a day mending some for John and Jake I feel a little better now I have just had my supper I am in better humor I had a letter from Thomas Davis last friday he is well and sends his best respects to you and all the family I will send it in this letter I do not think that it will be long before I will be at home to stay with you and to talk with face to face and not by letters the governor cannot find place for us there is some talk of discharging us. / I suppose that you would like that and a good many others there was fourteen out of one Company broke out and went home last week and twenty-one this afternoon but if I cannot get a furlough without braking guard will stay in here I think that I must bring my epistle to a close or else you will get tired the Captain has got the boys out snowballing the whole Company is out it is snowing very freely now so no more at present

                                                                                   

From your affectionate

Husband William Rees

                                                                                               

Take care of yourself

and be good to yourself

Mary Rees /

 

            Dear parents

I embrace this opportunity of writing a few lines to you to let you know that I not forgot you nor the kind instructions that you gave me before I am enjoying very good health at present as good as I ever did at home though I have got tired of this exciting life that I am in now there was a young man brought to Kittanning shot through the heart it was done in an accident there was two men quarreling in a tent near the place where he was on guard one of the men shot at the other and killed him and the other there is a brother to the one that was brought to town in our Company his name was noble

                                                                                   

From your son William Rees

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