Washington April the 11^th 1862

 

            Dear Sister

                                    I received your kind and welcomed letter on the 9^th which gives me pleasure to hear that you and your family is in good health as i am in at present thanks be to god for it

 

dear Sister i received them papers you sent me and i am thankfull to you for them for i allways like to hear from Brooklyn

 

I just finished a letter to send to John i told him to try and find out where you are that i would like to hear from you i did not tell him i got a letter from you he sent me his cirtificate of marriage and i dont know what his meaning was for sending it to me i sent it back to him again

 

we have some fun to night here / there is two old Dutch men singing hymns and two or three more dancing we have got a merry house

 

I am sorry to hear that John is so bad you may depend that it will shorten his days if he drinks to any excess let me know how is my Aunt Jane she is the only Aunt ever i cared about let me know if she is married to that stone cutter i most forget all about Brooklyn now it is so long since i seen it this is soldier fashion take a piece of board on your knee to write on

 

there is 5000 prisnors comeing to washington to night that was captured at island No 10 i have not much more to relate at the present time i send my love to you and family and to Aunt Jane and to all my enquiring friends

           

Direct to Michael Conklin

in care of Cap Tumbler Co. A. 4^th

Pa Cavalry Washington D.C.             

 

excuse this

 

letter i had no stamp to put on it and no money to buy one it is 3 months since we got payd from your Brother

Michael Conklin

 

Write soon again

good night

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