U. S. Army Hospital Germantown Pa

Philadelphia Jan 3^d/63

 

Dear Sister

                        I recieved your letter this morning and was glad to hear from you again. I am very sorry to hear that Lymie is so bad off and I doubt wether he ever is any better. It is to bad for he was such a strong and hearty looking boy.

 

I was very much surprised to hear that Capt Collingwood was dead for I had no idea that he was wounded so bad. he was a fine man and he must be a great loss to his family for I dont supose he was not worth a great deal 

 

I dont know what to write for news are as scarce here as they are in Old Plymouth. We are haveing very nice weather for this season of the year. it is warm and feels like fall instead of winter.

 

In my letter to Maranda I wrote that we were going to have a Turkey Dinner and an Oyster Supper but as the Soldiers say it Played Out and we did not get either but then we get enough to eat all the time and have no reason to find fault. Maranda wrote in her letter that Charley Bonner had got his Discharge and I supose he is a bragging around town about what he has done but if I am not very much mistaken / He has never been in any Battle since he came from home and a great many others which I supose you saw by the Captains letter in the Old Colony. The Boys here are geting their Discharges here every day without much trouble but I never have tried to get mine and I dont think I ever shall for I should not feel easy to be at home and the rest of the Boys out there a fighting but I dont intend to go back to my Regement this winter if I can help it unless I get all clear of my diahrrea for I know it would make it a great deal worse to go back and have to lay around in the rain and mud and then I have been kept in the / house so much this winter that I am not near so tough as I was when I first left the Army for then I was as tough as an old spike and could lay right down and sleep in a mud puddle without geting cold or stiffened up the least might you know that a man can get used to almost anything a man in the Army can stand the exposure better than a horse or a mule. I cant think of anything more to write this time for as I said before there is nothing to write about. I hope the next time I hear from home to hear that Hannah Tufts and Lymie are geting better. I will close now by wishing you all a happy New Year

 

Write again soon

Murrey

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