Ambulance Park 3^d Div. 3^d A.C.

Brandy Station, Va. Mar 21^st/64.

 

Dear Mother

                        Being at leisure as usual this evening, I will pen you a few lines in answer to yours of the 18^th which was admitted with joy to my rude shanty & perused with interrest. I was happy to learn that you still keep around but sorry that John has been complaining. I hope most earnestly he has fully recovered & that this may find you as it leaves me in the best of health.

 

            Then you couldn't get a chance to see Captain Allstrom. it is just as well, he is having a right smart time of it this winter, running home and showing his blue rags, let him / go it. somebody else will be home one of these days if nothing turns up and meet with as hearty a welcome in his old dirty blues as shoulder straps can.

 

            I dont think I shall bother myself making any garden this spring. I dont think it would pay for I doubt whether I would reap whither I had sown.

 

            The Boys are all well, the majority of the Regiment have gone on Picket. we had orders to march at a moments notice with 3 days rations last Friday but it amounted to nothing Saturday morning the order was ordered countermanded & still enjoy our old log shanties

 

            There is to be a grand review of the entire Army of the Potomac by Gen^l Grant on the 2^nd day of April & I think after that / we can expect a movement.

 

            I wrote to Aunt Clemmy last night, although she owed me a letter, still I know I have more time than she has for writing. My regards to your sick neighbor & all who may chance to enquire.

 

            I am rather at a loss to find anything interresting wherewith to fill this page. Everything is quiet through the train

 

            I will now close with many happy wishes, hoping to hear from you soon again. My love to you & John. May God bless you & preserve you from sickness.

                                                                                   

Your loving Son

Albert

Amb Corps

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