Patterson Park Hospital Baltimore

Md Mar 30, 1863

 

how is specie up

at home I hear it

is pretty plenty in

Maine it is rather

scarce here?    Wm

 

            Dear Sister

                        Your see by the heading of this that I am still here. I wrote you in my last of friday that I had been examined here by the head doctor and the result that it did not do any good. And I wrote you that I was on the point of starting for my reg't. We got all ready to leave but the guard did not come after us, as the whole of the Corps had not passed through. And we are to be sent (the doctor says) all together and distributed after we get out west. We are expecting to leave at most any moment. I received your's and Mother's letters last friday dated the 21^st and 22^nd as I wrote in my last I suppose you will like much better in Malden than you do in Baker- / ville I sent Mother a ring in my last letter and I made one for Albert but did not have very good luck with it and did not consider it fit to send. You wrote that Swain voted the Copperhead ticket. Tell him I hope he will be drafted if any one is and will be put in the foremost ranks And that I did not expect him to vote any other ticket. I would like (tell him) to be one to help ride him on a rail. Tell him to go to the Jeff Davis's dominions if he likes them better than he does our Government. What ticket did Aaron Guilford vote? do you know? Saturday we had a very rainy time and Sunday was cold and blustering This morning the mercury stood at 31º at a few minutes past seven My ancles are better nearly well the doctor gave me some liniment which I rubbed on I have not much news to write. I will not send this yet. I shall / probably be in Cincinatti or some other place out west, the next time I write I shall try to write often and keep you informed as to where I am. You must write often. Send my love to Father and all the rest, but I will add a few more words to this soon

                                                                                                                       

Wm. W.

 

Patterson Park Hospital April 1^st

                        Dear Sister

                                    We have not left yet. The weather is quite cold and windy to day. We had a fall of snow night before last of 2 or 3 in which has not left us yet. It is reported that the 8^th Army Corps which part of it is stationed in Baltimore is also to be sent out west I do not find much news to write. I have not been out on a pass since I came here. Do you know whether Charles Baker and Reub' are in the 9^th Corps? How is Aunt Statira and her little fish. You / must give her my best respects But I will close for the present

                                                                                                                                   

Wm.

 

Thursday April 2 1863

            I received your kind letter dated the 31^st this afternoon and was happy to hear from you You say that you are to move next week. I have not left yet and may not this week. The Conn men here have received furloughs from the first to the ninth of this month. This is a pleasant day and the snow has disappeared I suppose you have some snow left up there yet There was a squad of about 80 sent from here this morning to their reg'ts. You of course as well as Mother will like at Malden better than at Manchester as it is so near to our relations. You must write often direct your letters here till you hear further from me as the letters are sent on to the men from here if they have moved. My love to all from your bro William

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