Headquarters

                        Camp Chase—

Friday              September 25^th 1862

 

Dear darling Mary

I received your letter this evening

 

Sunday 28^th 1862

Dearest Darling Mary

                                    The above is all I have had an opportunity to write since the first date But now I will write to my Mary in preference to hearing the Chaplin spout As I told you bifore I wish you could know how I feel when I receive a letter from you I am almost crazy—and from some cause I always fill my eyes with tears I wish/I could have a letter from you every day but I can’t expect one so often I have got now to wait unless you write before you receive this untill Thursday I get letters the second day after they are mailed It appears to take longer to carry one home I can not get them as often when we take the field I dont expect—I notice you have some unnecessary writing on the last two letters which is “Gen Casey’s Division” we are liable to be transferred to some other Division at any moment all that is necessary is the letter of the Co. & number of the Reg. thus | Company G. 21^st Reg. Conn. Vols. Washington D.C. | all letters for the army should be directed to Washington that is with a very few exceptions But pShaw what am I writing about—I will stop short & tell you how I love you & love you better than myself or any bo better than ever before/any body loved another body—

 

Afternoon

I have just come in from a visit to the nieghboring camps I have seen several that I knew from old Conn. Among the rest was Hiram Shaw & Erastus Smith of Stonington The latter has just been released from Prison in Richmond He gives a hard account of the fare there I see Deacon C Supman’s son Alden, Peabody, Bob, Crandall, and such almost every day By the way before I forget it your Friend Herman. H—was the first in our Company to get louzy some of the boys discovered a louse on him large almost as a young kitten The vermin have not infested any the rest of the Company yet to my knowledge/

Sunday Evening

 

Dear, Dear, Mary, I wish you could look in upon us now I have just come in from Supper John, Parks, & myself I have just made a solemn compact with John not to swear The penalty is 25 cents payable to each other for each oath—John is reading the testament the best he can to begin with He is reading the sixteenth chapter of Luke

The reason I have not written this letter at once is because I have had ten thousand thousand things to do

 

                                                            Monday Morning

Dear Daling Wife & Mary

                                                I have not time to write but a few words this morning last night a messenger came into camp from headquarters & gave us orders to march to day at eleven o clock we do not know where but all the Reg’s about here are goin we shall make a large army some where by the time you receive this the bulletts will be whistling about us but Good bye God bless you write as before          

                                                                                    Court

 

[margin:          Enclosed find a ring I made]

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