U. S. Army Hospital

Germantown May 6^th/63

 

Dear Sister

                        I recieved your letter this morning with Fathers and was very glad to hear from you again and hear that you were all well with the exception of little Nellie but you say that she is geting better again. I call her little because I supose she is small although she is old enough now to be quite a girl, but then I supose she takes after Helen and never will be very large. Does Father send the paper to me now or not. I had began to think that he had stoped sending it for I have not recieved it for the last two weeks I thought I would just / ask and then I should know wether to expect it or not. I have been geting it so long now I rather miss it but then I dont know but what Father has stoped takeing it if so I shall not expect to get it any longer. I supose you are geting all the Army news there at home as well as we are here and they are pretty good news to if they will only hold out so but I am rather afraid that Old Fighting Joe will get drawn into some trap that he wont get out of with a whole skin, if he dont he is all right. there is one thing favorable for him and that is he has got them on the skeedaddle and that is a good thing for it tires the men out and then again they will have to destroy a great deal of their stores and property to keep / it from falling into our hands and all that they destroy in that way is their loss and our gain. I saw enough of that when we were retreating in that seven days fight last summer. I wish that I was down there with the Army although I dont care about geting killed or wounded but I would like to be in the Battle and have a little of the fun and exsitement although we had so many hard times in the Army but as a general thing I was better contented there than what I am here for all these better news makes me uneasy and then by and by when the War is over persons will ask me if I was in such and such a Battle and I shall have to say no that I was laying around here in the Hospital but then some one has got this part to do and I dont know but what it might as well be me as someone else 

 

You wanted to know if I had sent my box of things yet I have not yet but I will write when I do. you wanted to know if I had any liberty to go out I do have about as much liberty as I want the most of the time but then I have considerable writing to do just at the present time for you know that our Company has just been organized and we have not got things straightened yet.

 

you said that you had or was going to send some things by Mrs Dillard and among the rest was a bunch of May flowers. I would like very much to have a bunch for it has been some time since I have seen any. you might send a few in a letter or paper just enough to see how they looked. I dont think of anything more to write this time and will draw my letter to a close by biding you good bye for a short time. this letter will have to answer yours and Fathers to for I have not time at present to answer both.

 

Write again soon                                                                                            

Murrey

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