No 2

            I am glad that you have got the coat, very well pleased with your arrangments I should not have sent for it till I was paid but need it very much Have not been paid yet but shall be some time. I now wish you to send it as soon as possible Am glad you had a fine visit would liked to have been with you not to have seen Lib. Sterry & Miss Gardiner but to have enjoyed your own society & been happy with in you in the pleasures of the visit Am not surprised that you did not find the Johnstown society congenial to your tastes I dont suppose you admire Smith’s folk style of getting along that is unless they have improved lately/

My Darling to day is your birthday (twenty one) not so important an epoch in a woman’s life as in a man’s but still it is like every other in a young wife’s well worth her husband’s notice—Enclosed I send as a birth day present a ring that I have worn a long time myself & know to be pure gold & to have no bad associations please wear in remembrance of one who loves you dearer than any thing else on earth May the coming years close find us happily together instead of seperated by a cruel war

                                                                                                CGStanton/

I wish you to send the coat by the Adams Express to

            Sergt C. G. Stanton
            Co G. 21^st Regt C.V.
                        Newbern
                                    N.C.

            To follow the Regiment

Have the above  marked plain if in a Box If in a package seal up in a strong cloth. Take a receipt of the Co. & send to me by mail Send as soon as possible./

Much love to you and mother I am pleased that she has a picture for me I would liked to have had one with me but I may get one some time now or soon come home to look at the one she has

                                                Good bye

                                                            Court