Philadelphia Aug 20^th 1862

 

Dear Sister i take the opportunity of writing these few lines to you hopeing to find you and Ferdinand and the children all in good health i was sent to Philadelphia to the U.S.A. hospital at the corner of wood and 22^nd street last monday and i am beginning to recover a little since i came here and i expect to be back with the Regiment in a couple of weeks again there was 617 on board of the Comodore and we were ordered to go Newark New Jersey but the old steamer could not go on account of the rough seas then we were landed here / the ladies of Philadelphia did not know what to make of us they were rushing on the boat before any of us was landed with wine and cakes every thing you could mention and after we got in the waggen to go to the hospital we were stopt at every corner by somebody to give us wine or cakes or peaches or some thing else i would sooner go to Jersey i might have a chance to see some of youse then but i believe there is no more sick furloughs allowed if you were to see me now you would not know me i am so poor i am failed away to nothing 

 

Bedelia i hope you did not send that box i asked you for the troops is all moved away from harrison Landing and the express man would have to keep it in charge let me know how is John getting along these times or has he any notion of enlisting let me know how is Mary and Jane and the children getting their health i would write to her only i am run out of stamps and i wont get paid until the 1^st of September

 

Direct to Michael Conklin U.S.A. hospital corner of Wood and 22^nd streets

Philadelphia Pa                                                                           

 

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