Stuart Mansion Hospital

Baltimore Md.

Sunday, Oct 25^th/62.

 

I have just read your kind letter of the 20^th and 21^st of this month and was very glad to hear from you once more and that you were all well. I got one from home (that is, South Creek) yesterday that was wrote two days after yours was. Wallace was not drafted, he started for Sinema[?] the day before the draft came off /

W^m Harkness, Samuel Thompson, Abe Duning, Ike fuller, David King, and some five or six others. well, I guess that will do.

 

            What will Smiths wife do now, it is most to bad to take a man with a family when there are so many young men that can go without leaving a family. Well, now about myself, a little. I am as happy as a clam in high water, nothing to do, but eat and sit around the ward and read the papers. I get a paper about every day. / James Nabal is now a Corporal. I rec^d a letter from Cap^t Hills last night and my descriptive list, so I think that I shall get my pay the first of next month. then I shall have to buy some new clothes, for my descriptive list says that I am first Lieutenant. I am very glad you sent me Miss Marshalls address, as you take such an interest in her. I will write her a letter soon I sent out yesterday and got one dollars / worth of stamps now I am going to writing again. I have not wrote much lately. I shall have to close I send my best respects to all. please write soon. direct as before.

 

this from your brother

W^m Chase

1^st Lieu^t Co I,

45^th Reg^t

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