No 13.                                                                                                

Tuesday June 23/63

Camped in the rear of

Vixburg

 

Dear Mollie I received your letter of the 7 yesterday & was very glad to get it. you spoke of sending me one on friday before which I have not got yet. you spoke of sending me your a pair of socks & some other things. you need not send me eny thing unless you have a chance to send me some fruit or vegitables of eny kind. fruit well canned is the best thing we can get. in your last letter I found 2 sheets of paper 2 envelopes & 4 stamps, & a letter from Mrs Landon & Kate. we had a good time a reading them, for we were all together. we was glad to hear that you had a viset together. the boys said they / hoped you had a good time & wished they could have been there with you. the paper & stamps you send me comes very exceptable, but the envelops you need not send, for I have aplenty of them anough I hope to last until the war ends. you spoke about those verces you sent I got them along time ago. those fiew lines you wrote on the envelop atracted a greadeal of atention. the boys all wanted to see them. they said they was firstrate & wanted to know if my wife wrote them. Jo Evans wants me to keep them he says he wants write them off & send them home & to the eureka. I told him I thought he would not. he thought it would be quite an honor to you I told him you dident get your honor that way. he had / no more to say. Mary I want you to tell me how you like your school & how you get along with your scholars. how does Lillie get along with her learning. well Mary we are holding our position yet we have got the rebs corelled & are garding them. all the trouble they have got their guns yet & shoot at us sometimes when they have a chance, but I think they must be geting rather week on their pea bread, for they are living on peas & corn mixed together for their bread.                                  

 

Wednesday the 24

we had a shower last night & it makes it quite cool this morning. we heard very heavy fiering last night round on the left we understood this morning that the rebs tried to get out, but they were repulsed. I think they will come to terms before long. 

 

I understood yesterday that Lee was within 20 miles of harisburg, PA with 8000 men. if that is the case, this war is not agoing to end very soon. I hope it is false. you get the papers more regular than we do so you hear the news oftener. well mary I went to the sutlers this morning & bought a pound of butter. I paid only 50 cts & every thing is in proportion, so you can see how a soldier makes money. we got two months pay yesterday. I will send you 20 dollars in a fiew days. I think we will express it to Sol garrison. I have just been eating some fruit which Kate sent last spring. dried apels are worth 15^cts per lb, peaches the same. Landon & Vrooman are well & send you their respects. From Oliver to Mollie Shibly

 

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I have received one since the 28 of last month

 

I have writen you 4 letters & this is the 5 this month             the 7, 14, 21, 24

 

no more this time write often John Josa write to me, good by for this time Oliver

Mollie

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