20^th Conn Vols.

Tantallon Tenn.

Feb. 6^th 1864.

           

My Dear Parients,

                      Yours of the 21^st Jan. I recieved this morning with the money and the paper. Thank you for all especially for the money for now I can buy something from the commissary at Anderson—flour, molasses, fried apples and a lot of other good things to eat. We dont get any thing from Uncle Sam but hard-tack, bacon and beans, besides coffee and sugar. No soft bread or fresh beef except once and then twas hardly fit to eat. I am glad to know you are going to send your pictures for I want them very much / I wish you had more of my carde-de-visite photographs for I have many applications for them now. Many of my friends in Cromwell want my pictures and offer to send theirs if I will mine. if I ever get another chance to have them taken I shall. I think I would reenlist if I had a chance and your consent, for I want to see the war put through the rebellion chrushed and Jeff Davis and his cotempories sent to the Devil as they deserve punished. But I suppose they will flee to some foreign country when they give up their cause as lost. I want father to vote for Buckingham if he is nominated and I see by the papers he is proposed for the next Govenor. I shall / be old enough to vote for the next after this spring if I am alive and this "cruel war is over" Please tell me in your next how much father got for his tobacco in all and how many pounds in all. How much for the poor? I hope he will get my watch at Mr. Wells in Hartford and have him put it up it will come safe by mail. You dont know much I need one, I dont want it "Because all the rest of the boys have one" but because I need it. I half expected a letter from Miss White from what you wrote a few weeks ago. Tis Leap Year you know and the Ladies can take many liberties. Where is MC now I have not had a / a letter from her for a long while but two since I came west. She writes to John but never mentions my name as I can find out. Never mind. Plenty of them left yet I fancy. It dont trouble me so but what I sleep sound nights. When I have a chance. What is Nelson doing this winter? I have not heard from this winter. Where is Charles and Harvey? never hear from them. I recieved a paper from Charles last summer when we were coming back from Penn and he wanted me to write but I havent yet and dont think I shall. Cousin Dora has promised me her picture several times but I have not got it yet Several young ladies to whom I gave my

 

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pictures promised me theirs but I never got them yet But when I reenlist as a veteran I shall have a chance to get them But I cannot write more now Your aff son Henry

 

Send me a newspaper with some black thread in it

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