No. 83.                                                                                   

Camped near Savannah, Ga.

Jan 6^th /65.

 

Dear Mollie,              

I have not had a letter from you for three weeks & this is the third letter I have writen in that time. we have not had but litle mail since we have been here. I hope we will get some soon, for I think we will move before long. the 17^th Corps has gone to Wilmington, North Car. & I think we will go before many days. we are to have a grand review on Saturday & that is a good sine for we always move after it.

 

well Mary I sent you a hundred dollars the 28 of Dec. I hope you will get it in due time for I know you are in need of it. 

 

Mary day before yesterday was my birthday, 35 years old. can it be that I am as old as that, it seems but a short time when I was a boy & now my head is geting gray. a fiew years more & I will be an old man. haint you sorry you maried one so old I should think you would be. well anough of that. it has rained all the forenoon & now it has commenced again so I cannot write much more to day.

 

we have had very pleasent weather for winter. I must stop for one of the boys broke his drum & I must fix it, so Good by

 

Jan 8^th

this is a cold wintry day & I am not very well so I cannot write much more this time. I have had the ague & since / then I have been troubled with pain in my legs. I think it is caused by the ague. I feel some better to day & I think I will be all right in a fiew days. the boys in the company are all well except Vrooman & Robinson. they have very sore eyes. we had a small mail yesterday but thare was nothing for me. we had one letter for the company so I could not expect one.

 

well Mary we have had orders to move in the morning. we will go down the river to Hilton Head & thare take the boat & go to the mouth of James river. I think we have had all the rest we will have this winter. thare is no telling when I can write again but will as soon as I can & you must do the same.

 

From yours as ever, to Mollie C Shibly

From Oliver Shibly

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