Camp 13^th N.H. Vol^s.

Near Portsmouth V^a

April 1^st /64

 

Dear Ari

                        I have just received your letter of the 27^th and will try to answer it to night. you did not say whether you had got my letters or not. I wish you would tell me when you write because I like to know wheather you get them or not. nor you did not say anything about your soar throat. it is just two weeks to day since I arrived back to camp and I have written four letters to you beside this one. I think that is doing pretty well for me. I am well Ari, never was better. I was on as Sergt of the guard last night so you see I have been a bed to day and when / I awoke up Sergt Morrison and Winn had got my boots fixed up on the table, like a photographic instrument, and thay said thay were going to take my photograph, but thay did not make out to take mine. but Sergt Morrison took one of Winn whitch I will send to you. he says it is better then the original. he is going to have some taken that will look more natural at some more convenient place then it is here in our little house. so you see that we have some fun in the Army.

 

Our boys are right on tip toe. thay are runing around like so many puppeys. for what you will ask. because our Colonel has just come, he and his wife, every body seems to be pleased to have our Col come back. he is a buly man (and so is his wife.) /

 

            I have just heard from old Rye by the way of a newspaper. Langdon Jenness got his eyes put out last week by the explosion of a coffee pot that was filled with powder. he was blasting logs of wood. one is liable to get hurt if he ant in the Army. James Lanes house and barn was burnt last week in Hampton N.H. I also heard from old Exeter, that Jacob Towles wife is under arrest for reporting a story that Alva Wood and others had been giveing things to Rus Batchelders wife endways. (nasty dogs) so look out how you report storys. I presume you have heard all of these storys before this but I thought I would tell you about them so that you would know there was not much done at home that we soldiers did not know off. 

 

it raines here to night Ari and I feel kinder lonesom. I wish that I was with you to night, dont you. wouldnt we lay snug to night (hay) Oh by the way, Sergt Morrison and myself have got two sheets to sleep in nights. thay are nice I tell you (thay feel so smooth to my A—ss) I see Cloa to day, I asked her how her snapper was and she said it was all stove to pieces. I says that is to bad. well says she, a colard soldier done it. all right says I. How do you suppose Elmer is to night. I would like to see him ever so much, say two bushels worth. Oh, we dont hear any thing about moveing from here at preasant, some think we shall stop here all summer. as I have nothing to write of any account I will close. Give my regards to By and Lauren and all of the rest of the folks.

good night, from your affectionate

            Husband, Corp^l S. B. Tarlton

 

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write very often, be shure now Ari.

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