Norfolk Va. Nov. 23^rd/63

 

My dear Mamie

                        I promised when I wrote you last to write again soon & I am sorry I have neglected so long. John starts for home tommorrow & I shall send this by him with a package of old letters which are dear to me & I want them kept & thought I should never have a better chance to send them. I have been reading over these letters & I wish I might keep them to look at often but I also want to save them & that I could not do if we should move It is not like sending that first lot to you./Those were I supposed lost to me forever. How well I remember that night. You were cruel then but for that you have paid me a thousand times.

 

Tuesday Morning

Good Morning, Darling

                                    It rains to day but thank God I am not out in it I received the shirts several days ago. They fit me splendid They are made just as only a Good dear wife could make them I am very thankfull for them they make me look much neater. John has nearly got the Diptherea but I guess he will be well when he gets home Paul I suppose is home/Thanksgiving day is near at hand how happy I should be if I could spend the day at home with you darling. We expect to have a fine time here but what pleasure is there in eating & drinking when those we love are absent—When I think of it I can but contrast it with last year’s thanksgiving day I hope next year it may be as much more pleasant by my being at home, * Darius Randall is going to Washington to be examined for a Nigger commission the best thing he could do I hope he will get one Ramon Kenyon I begin to think is not going/get any at all some Sergt that went up when he did are now sporting 2 Bars. I am still acting Orderly Bill Frink has got the diptherea It is very plenty in the Regt. They are going to start a line of Steamers between here and NYork and a detail from this Regt is go on them I dont know but I would like that have four days in N.York. Every body is after the job. I must close

 

Good bye Daling

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