Bermuda Hundred

                                                                                                            Aug the last 1864

 

            Dear Mamie.

                                    I received your kind letter of the 23^rd this morning. Was as usual happy to hear from my darling If possible I was more glad than usual this morning for I had been looking for a letter for several mornings I was glad to hear you were well as for myself I dont know but I shall become a confirmed “Invalid” To day I am quite sick all resulting from eating to many Beans I have not been entirly well since my late sick-spell If it was only quiet times I possibly might get home Ed—Wheeler (“fortunate Cuss”) being on duty at Gen Butlers Hdqrs’ has got a furlough & I suppose is at home now/

 

To day being the last of the month is a pretty busy one in the army Muster Rolls to be finished so as to be mustered This will make the third time we have been mustered & no pay yet This fancy paper is some the boys obtained by “going through” a Sutler Night before last nearly all the Regt participated in robing one or as the call it “going through him” It was done in retaliation This one belonged to the Tenth Corps & some of that corps “went through” Charlie Burdick our Sutler. This tenth Corps man was close to our camp & had about fifteen Hundred dollars worth of “Stuff” all of which the boys appropiated Not a word has been said about it yet nor do I think there will be/

 

We have a very pleasant Camp now and the duty is not hard It consist of picket duty & drill I hope we may stay here till Spring but do not expect any such good luck. It does seem as though they ought to consider us a little for we have only about 150 of the 1000 we brought out with us for duty.

 

To your two lines enclosed

            “When new joys & hopes you find

            Think of her thou leav’st behind”

 

I would reply

There are no new joys or hopes awake

Of which thoughts of “her” do not partake

 

Dearest you are constantly in my mind as I remarked in my last I wish it were possible for me to occupy my mind more with other things I should be less miserable at times. It is not because thoughts of the do not make me happy/but to think that I must be so long seperated from you but I will not get discouraged for the time is fast passing away

 

Sept 1^st 1864

Summer has gone. It is quite cool nights now It becomes necessary to pull the Blanket over a fellow nights. It makes one sigh for home feather Beds & different Bed fellows I was so sick last night I had to give up could not finish my letter. But I feel quite well to day Am washing to day three pieces Shirt Drawers & stockings Four days more & then comes the Draft Tell Sam Avery to settle up home affairs & prepare to leave that wife of his When that five hundred thousand get out here There will be something to do. I am anxious to hear who they nominated at Chicago last Monday I dont know as it will make much difference.—               Court

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