Bridgeport Sunday eve July 12^th

 

Dear Brother

                        It is Sunday eve and I am so lonely I dont know what to do so I thought I would write a few lines to you although I havnt received any answer to the last two that I have written. I have been looking for a letter some time but I heard you were sick so I suppose that accounted for your not writing but Father Mother & Hattie came here last Sunday Delia was here she came the week before so Monday morning I went home with Father & Delia lef Hattie & Mother here I wanted to pick some cherries the trees were loaded I came home Thursday morning and Mother & George went home last night Hattie & I are here all alone George is always home and it seems so lonely now to have him gone. Hattie thinks she shall stay here as long as Uncle George does she is quite contented she has grown so you would hardly know her 

 

There has been a great many changes since you went away. Grandfather & Charles are gone. I went over to see Grandmother it seems queer not to see Grandfather there he suffered a great deal but now he is at rest. I dont know as John Benedict is alive there wasnt many left after the last battle Capt Moore was supposed to be killed I have been up to see Edward Fairchild to night he came home Friday he wrote home that he was sick in the Hospital at Washington so Flora went on and he got a furlough of two months and came home with her. he has got the dysentery the doctors had given him up when Flora got ther but she went to doctoring him and he got better so the started for home in a week she is sick now with the same compaint she had a doctor to day Edward looks bad he has got to go back in two months if he is alive. He says your Regt will be in New Haven the 14 August I hope you will come. Father wants some one / to help him he is growing old fast he looks care worn and Mother mourns about you a great deal. Father cant get any one to help him this summer and he cant do much alone. he was so lame in his back when I was home that he could hardly bend but I hope he will get over it I dont know what they would do without him. he cant do anything with the colt she acts so and the old horse is sold but Cate is better than she was in the winter. Do you think Oscar will enlist again I suppose a great many will as there has got to be more men raised I here they are going to draf here soon. I wish the war might end and not have any more lives sacraficed but it look rather dark now the had great rejoicing here because Vicksburg was taken by our troops. If you have time you can answer this if not by writing answer it in person the latter if you can I will leave the other side for George perhaps he will have some news when he gets home

           

so good night from your sister Em /

 

As Em has left a place for me write I will try to improve it I came from home to day they are all well except Grandmother she has got a braking out what it is I do not know I have plenty of work and ar getting along first rate now days I hear that thare is a mob in N York to day about the draft also in New Haven I suppose that it will make great times all over the cuntry John Benedict is wonded he has his arm broken and a flesh wond in his hip thare is but 26 of his Redgment left but what is prisanors of war or in the Horsepittle and got their discharge Father & Mother put a letter in the office to day so no more this time as it is gitting dark and I cannot see to write I heard that Osker & AM Taylor ar ded how trew it is I do not know

 

From your Brother George

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