Bivuac July the 19, 64

                                                                                                           

Mrs Luvenia Hill

 

My Dear Wife this will inform you that iam well as common and I am the same at present Every thing is quiet yet only the enemy is still shelling Petersburg we are near stony creek station betwen Petersburg and Weldon N.C. My Dear i am know detailed off with the Brigade Comisary wagons I fare splendid and is out of danger I heard from my horse yesterday he is mending a gain. We have not had a fight latly it is reported by the yankey prisoners that grant is ded if so we will rest a while general Early is shelling Washington they say My dear you must write to me. I received 3 letters yesterday from you the first i have got in 32 days I was truly glad to hear from you once more and sorry to hear that the hogs is all dieing up so fast with that disease give them salt in their slop it will help them i think Mrs Nix said if you will take a table spoon full of turpintine and a spoon full of salt and mix it to gether and give it to the hogs twice a day for ten days it will cure it Try it Mrs Hill if you please Oh how i want to see you all once more i am anxious to hear from home I hope you will send me all the news by John Adams when he comes /

 

My dear you wrote to me a bout some of the fellows writting some big things they done but my dear they can do the blowing part but the fighting part begs to be excuse. My dear i have never got out of the first fight yet I all ways was in the front at that, and generally led the charge not braging on my self but eny one will tel you the same that was with ous the one that you hear was so brave i think he has bin in 2 or 3 little fights either his horse would tire or some excuse he ust to have I wrode my horse 65 days stedy and some times all night and some times 48 hours without a mouth full of eny thing to eat at all I fell of 17 lbs but i am mending a gain if i could only hear and hear all was well i would be satisfied I just as leave be out hear as to be in South Carolina and not to hear from home [?] and as my horse would get more to eat there that is all the diference you must try and ingage corn my dear we still speak of moving back to S.C. but we wont come be fore fall now how We are sending men home after horses know i all so send a Sharps Rifle by Mr Thomson he is to leave it with Utsey at georges station it is to go with this letter you can get it home some time or nother it is a yanky gun i killed the man and I want to keep his gun in remembrance of him. i think i have put a good many of them to sleep

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