U. S. Army Hospital Germantown

Philadelphia Pa

 

Dear Sister

                        I recieved your letter last evening and was glad to hear that you were well at home.

 

I am geting a little better I think for my discharges are not quite as often as they have been.

 

I guess we are going to have some snow now for the wind is out to the Eastered and it has been snowing all the morning but I hope it will turn to rain for I dont want to see any snow. last winter at Newport News we did not have two inches of snow all winter and no ice thicker than window glass but then we had rain enough to make up for the snow and ice /

 

In my last letter to Hannah Tufts I wrote that I had sent for my Descriptive List and last week I recieved it but through mistake it was not signed by my Company Commander and I dont know wether it will do me any good sometimes the Doctors in the Hospitals do sign them and perhaps my Dr will for me at least I hope so for we are expecting to be paid off now every day and without my Descriptive List I cant get only two months pay and then it will be a great deal of trouble to me to get my back pay and then again a man cant get his Discharge without his Descriptive List.

 

I have never asked for my Discharge yet and I dont think that I shall unless I think that I am geting worse but you can depend upon it if I / think that I am geting worse I shall try for my Discharge you have the wrong idea about me for I am not near so sick as you think I am. when I am well I had rather be with my Regement for there I enjoyed myself first rate a roveing about allthough we had some hard marching and fighting but never mind that as long as you come out all right I see by the Old Colony that Sergt Fuller has arived home discharged if they keep on at this rate a great while longer it will be as you say they will all get home before I do. I was very sorry to hear of the death of Thomas Mullen for he was a firstrate fellow allthough he never has been with the Company much for he was atached to Howards Battery with five or six others of the Company 

 

What do the folks at home think of the changes that has been made in the Army the last week. I guess that Father has not got quite so much confidence in Gen Burnside now as he had at first. It has turned out just as I thought it would but I did not think it would come quite so quick as what it has. if they turn out many more such Generals as Sumner and a number of others that I might mention we shall very soon have to acknowledge the Southern Confederacy and be glad to do it if we dont have to now. I hope you wont think that I am turning Secesh but I do hate to see such devilish works carried on just by them—Traitors at Washington but enough of this for I am geting mad with myself and as my sheet is about full I will close by biding you good bye                           

Murrey

 

                        Write again soon

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