No. 25.                                                                                               

Camp Sherman

Sunday, Sept. the 18, /63

 

Dear Mollie,

I received the letter you sent by Henry Robinson the 15 & the drum also, & yours & the childrens likenesses, & some dried berries & socks. they all came very exceptable that likeness is very nice, the children look as natural as life. I think Clarence looks so well, he must have been quite fleshy when you had it taken. the boys all think that the children are to good looking for to be mine & the woman too. they say they could not see how I got so smart a looking woman. I tell them that I plaid sharp & if they had done so they they mite have smart women two. they dont have enithing more to say. Mary I am sory that you / had so much trouble with that drum, for you have anough to do without. tell Josa that I expected hers & Nellies likeness, but since she has died I could not ask it. I am glad she had it taken last spring. you spoke about my sending the money for that drum as soon as I could I have the money now. it was paid to me the same night that the drum came & I will send it the first opertunity I sent $15 with Landon, which I supose you have got before this time. I sent a letter by him & one by George Wildy. he has been gone about a week. I sent a lot of things with him. one of the number was a book, the rade & romance of morgan & his men. I want you should read it. some of it is interesting some of it is true but more that is not. two of our boys are geting furlows / Joseph Blakeslee & Bates from rome. they are giving the young men furlows in sted of maried men, when thare was an order came out that all maried men should go home first, but our officers have not done so. our captain wants Jo to go home & see his girl he thinks he is about right. I hope he will go & see her & feed her on dried apels. he says that is all he cares about her, he will do it if he has a chance. Capt. Evens has aplied for a leave of absence & I hope it will come back disaproved, for he has not got one furlow yet for the boys. every other company has sent home some of their men & he might, if he had of atended to it in time. the weather has been very warm until last night it rained & the wind changed in the north & it was very cold for the climet / it is some warmer to day & to morow it may be as warm as ever

 

Mary, I have some news to tell you, perhaps you have heard it, but I will tell you, some of the boys that have been home say that Handys wife has been eating dried dried apels since he has been in the service. now if that is so & I dont doubt it, for it came from rome, I feel sory for him. they say he is raising particular hell. I think she has degraded her self brought a stain on her & her children that can never be bloted out, what a shame a disgrace for a woman with 3 or 4 children. her husband in the army fighting for his country & she at home a disgrace to the world, what will he do, oh I know what I would do I would take my children & tell her to seak her lodging some whar els. I would leave her & leave for ever I would make her an outcast to the world. my health is very good now, my eyes are some weak now I think they will get beter again

 

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may this find you all well & harty from O Shibly to Mollie C Shibly

 

write often                  

 

good by to you all       Oliver

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