B. Hundred Sept 12

 

Dear Mamie

                        I have this morning received your good long letter of the 5^th & 6^th I have not written you for some time & now I will tell you why Just after receiving your letter of Aug. 30^th I was detailed to go to Norfolk & fetch up the Knapsacks belonging to the Regt.—I left here the 4^th & was gone four days I had a very pleasant trip that is it seemed so to me after having been penned up here all summer I meant to written you/yesterday the anniversary of the Regt leaving Conn but I neglected to till it was to late for the mail This morn the first thing I am writing so as to be sure I know you will be looking anxiously for a letter for you have allready received my last. This month seems to me is passing away very quick It does not seem more than a couple of days since the month commenced. Well let the time fly quickly for a twelve month. Give me life, at the end of that time & I hardly care what else takes place At least all things else connected/with myself are secondary to that. I wish I might be at home to go to the Picnic. But I hope for the interest of that dear locality Shunoc that these Picnicks may become an annual affair. I know by the one we tried as an experiment three years ago that they are a real benefit to all concerned & that a day so spent is spent pleasantly and profitably. I was well pleased to hear that mother Lewis & the family were getting along so well I am glad Frank has chosen the occupation he has I have high hopes/for Frank he is so good I am exceedinly sorry to hear that there would be no draft in Stonington Because I know how they filled the quota. At least I hear that they voted a tax of a cent & a half on a dollar. Thereby enabling those soldiers that have property at home who have suffered & periled their lives here for two or three years to help by substitutes for those Damned Cowards at home Language cannot express how the soldiers feel about it but “every dog must have his day” & they will have theirs yet. * * * * You ask if I love Mamie as well as I used to. If it were possible I love you a thousand times better. At any rate I wish I was at home to show you. My love to mother. Good bye for the present Court.

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