Bermuda Hundred

                                                                                                                        Aug 28^th 1864

 

Dear Mamie.

                        I wrote you last from the Hospital. I got well & left there as soon as possible The day I returned to the Regt. they came up here It is rather more pleasant here We are inside the works here & it is very seldom that there is any shelling How long they will let us stay here I can’t tell. I suppose they will pay us while here The Regt had lain in the trenches in front of Petersburg (13) days succesively before they came so you may judge they need rest. Five Co. are detached from the Regt “G” among them supporting a Battery/

 

To day is Sunday & a fine pleasant day some of that “Dog day” [?] about it but clear & cool like Autumn How I wish I was home to day I have never thought so much about it since I have been in the service as I have of late. But never mind two years most gone. The other will pass quick & then I will be done with war. Friday last I saw two very important personages Rant Kenyon & Gen Grant It was the first time I had seen Grant He was all alone & is a very ordinary looking sort of a man Kenyon was with his Regt going up to the front at Petersburg He has been discharged but got reinstated wishes he hadn’t now I guess/

 

Since writing this morning we have been relieved from the fort & are now back with the Regt We have not got settled down yet but hope to soon We should think at home it was rather hard if we had to move around so much on Sunday But I hardly can tell if we better our condition any but that is seldom the case I wish I did not think so much of home it makes me miserable at times But there is one consolation that is your cheering letters So full of assurance & love they/help a fellow along amazingly I know that by them that Mamie still loves me & is true & faithfull allthough if I should not receive a letter from you during my term of service I should not doubt you I hope we may both be favored with good health till I get out of this war & then I dont think either will regret having been seperated Give my love to mother tell her I do not forget her & wish I could see her

                                                            Court

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