Liverpool Point Feb 1^st/63

 

Dear Mother

                        I received your letter last Friday and was very glad to hear from you. I am in the best of helth just now and hope you are all well home I have been enjoying myself down here very much as for your thinking me in much danger here you need not be afraid for me as the people are quite clever and I am acquainted with very many of the people about here and they all treat me first rate so you need not be uneasey about me.

 

I hope all will be well at home before this letter reaches you and I hope you all will escape that awful deasese that is raging in Baltimore now We have had it very nice down here this winter this far and hope it will / be so the remainder of the winter as for that cold spell down here well it was rather cold for awhile but by the aid of good fires we made ourselves very comfortable so you need not be afraid about us for we are fixed first rate down here and have a fine time generaly I received Georges and Johnny letters and was very glad to here from them and I hope they write to me often

 

You say my three years are comeing to a close that is true and I hope I will live to see that time come when I shall be able to return home again a free man. but I am not sorry that I am in the army no indeed I am proud that I ever did enlist to serve my country but I will be glad when my time is out so I can become a citizen once more and come and go when I please. but I shall allways look / back with pleasure to the time I was in the army to the three years I gave to my country to crush the Rebelion and help to build this Union up stronger than ever I hope the day is not far off when this war will be over when peace will dawn on this once happy land and the North and the South will be united and the negro question be forever settled. I hope soon to see the day when there will be no North nor South nor East nor West but one united country when we shall be respected of all Nations and none dare to insult our flag.

 

I am thankful that I have gone this far and not been hurt yet as many a poor fellow has I do not know what is in store for me yet but I intend to do my duty as a good soldier untill my time is out and I hope and pray I will come out safe and sound /

 

I had a notion of reenlisting but I have given it up for I donot see that Maryland will do anything for her soldiers and I donot think she will do much for them anyhow Harry West is going to reenlist for three years more and so are some more of our boys but he is the only one you know

 

I am in the best of helth just now in fact have been all the time since I have been down here

 

give my love to all home and to Johnny and his family to Magie and all in Aunt Sophia's and to all that ask after me and reserve a large lot for yourself

                                                                                   

from your affectionate Son

Hamilton

 

write soon

           

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