November 20^th 1864

 

Dear Mamie

                        To day is Sunday a cold rainy day. I very lonsome & also very sad. Sad because I do not get any letter from Mamie I should have written you several days ago but have been patiently waiting to get a letter from you This morning all hope died out when the mail came & I did not get one. I wrote my other wife (John B. Brown) the same time I did you & I received his reply several days ago. But it ill becomes me to find fault I have been so negligent myself at previous times. One thing that makes me more anxious is the money I requested you to send & fear it has been lost—/

 

I have got a bad cold though it is nothing serious, but colds are always troublesome to me. I have splindid quarters for a soldier to have. A log house (6) feet by (10) with a good fireplace one that won’t smoke. A good bunk with a bed tick filled with straw. These things however cannot be enjoyed forever as a Soldier is liable to leave them all behind at any moment—There is one place I would like to leave them for that is Home. Would it not seem pleasant to be at home thanksgiving day? It would give me more pleasure than any thing else in this world could It does seem of they would let me come home this winter that I could fight better next summer However I will try & not get homesick It is but a little over nine months/if nothing happens that will soon pass away. They have made new arrangments by which an officer promoted can be mustered into his new rank for the unexpired term of his service. The old arrangment was that whenever mustered anew One had to be mustered for three years more. Fearing that you might not have recd my last letter I will give you a brief summary of what it contained. I was appointed Act Lieut the third day of Nov & assigned to the command of the 3^rd Brig Pioneer Corps & considering the change in my position I found it necessary to have some money & therefore wrote you to send me twenty five dollars. The money I have not wanted very bad yet as I could not/go away to make the use of it I intended it for. I can think of no more to write at present I will again as I hear from you darling. I hope it is not illness has delayed your letter this time My love for my darling increases with the seperation that is if were possible for to increase Give my love to mother. Tell her I am considered a man now although she always said I would be considered a boy (I am just as much “boy” as ever though)                                               Court

 

P.S. When you write again you can with propriety address me as Lieut as on the 15^th I had the good fortune to receive a Commission as 1^st Lieut.

                                                                                                C.G.S—

SOURCES