Camp 13^th N.H.Vols

Near Petersburg V^a

June 25^th 1864

 

Dear Ari!

                        I received your letter of the 19^th this morning and was very glad to hear from you, but I am very sorry that you are so low spirited. what trubble have you got into Ari. I am very anxious to know. I should not have written to day if you had not wrote me that there was something that I ought to know. dont write me any thing of that kind again unless you tell me what it is, for it makes me feel bad, and the Lord knowes we have truble enough now days. if you had only told me what it was that I ought to know I should not feel half so bad if little Elmer had left this world / because we soldiers are use to seeing folks leave this world, but if we see it, we know why it happened, so we think that it is the fortunes of war. I could stand and see Battalion after Battalion mowed down with the iron hail that the accussed rebels throw at us and not feel half so bad as I did when I read that letter this morning. now write me as soon as you get this and tell me all of your trubbles. why do you keep them back, if any one else getts them, let them have have them, it wont make any differance to you or me. one day sooner or later these trubbles will all be over. thay may be with you first, and it may be me, we cant tell, but, Ari, there is as good time a comeing make up / your mind of that and bare all of your trubbles with patience. dont fret your self to death Ari, for it wont do any good. I get all of your letters in time so dont keep anything back that I ought to know. there must be one letter that you have not got but you will get it, by and by. I have not heard from Sergt Morrison this morning. he went away from here yesterday. Mr Patterson went with him. Mr Patterson was up to the front with us when Morrison got wounded. he was in the pit in a minute after he was hit, he felt very bad. someone said to him you will get hit if you dont look out, says he, dont trubble your self about me for I am no better to get hit then / you are. he is a patriott. I wish he was our Chaplin. well Ari, thay have begun to throw shell again so I shall have to make this short.

 

my regards to all the folks and write as often as you can. dont work if it hurts you. go home to your Fathers and stop untill you feel better. Oh Ari you cant think how lonesome I feel with out Morrison. Winn feels very bad. he cryed like a child when I told him about Jim, even to the Col mounted his horse and went to the Hospital with him. he says boys I will see that Sergt Morrison is taken good care of.

 

well I must close good day

 

From Your Affectionate husband

Sergt. S. B. Tarlton

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