Engineer Depot           Washington D C

To Dear Agnes

 

                        this dreary sabbath morning I am seated to write my regular sabbath letter to her whom I know will look eagerly for its arrival on tuesday. we have been having rough weather since I last wrote you snow and rain plenty of it and part of the time pretty cold. our regiment have gone front started on tuesday morning last it was then snowing and raining hard I tell you I pittied them they tore down their shelters and packed them up ready to march at 7 AM since then they have been out in the storm pretty near all the time. our company is now here alone in the Depot the fifteenth regiment is here yet but I hope they will soon be called away then we will have pretty good times this summer/

 

the orders have just come for us to go out on review so I will have to lay aside this letter and get ready for the review perhaps you will not get this letter before wednesday. I will try to finish before going out on review as I am ready to go at a minutes notice. I am in good health and in pretty good spirits hoping Dear Agnes you enjoy like blessings. I have heard from my brother he is not going to reenlist. the surgeon will not pass him thinks he is not heathy enough to stand it three years longer I am glad he is not going to stay in the army. he will get home sooner than myself his time is out in August since I last wrote you we have had three deaths in our hospital here and one front one of the men belonged to our company a new man was only here about two weeks died by taking cold with the measels he was a member of the church and said he was ready to die he leaves a wife and five children. we had his body embalmed and sent home we raised the money here in the company it cost about fifty dollars but we raised nearly a hundred in about half an hour so you see the/soldier thinks of his fellow soldier and of those who mourn the loss of one that cannot be filled here on earth. I attended to the purchasing of the coffin and sending of the corps. we escorted it to the express office with an escort of forteen men the most soldier looking we could find in our company so you can judge we turned out a nice escort as the men were picked out of one hundred and fifty. we now have a fund in the company to send home any who may fall by the hand of disease. the others who died one with delirium tremors and I do not know what was the disease of the others. when you write tell me if you have seen cousin Mary yet and if you handed her the likeness and what she said about it this will be a long day to me as the weather is not fit to be out much it is so muddy under foot now if I were seated by the side of Dear Agnes I would not be lonesome do you think I would I know I would not but cheer up Frank your time will soon expire then Agnes will be ready to meet you with a joyous heart and a warm greeting is it not so. I trust it is your friends to/I believe will welcome me, they always have, and I love them as I should all my friends. but you know there is one whom I love more than a friend and so I should for I have reason to believe my love is returned with a true heart. I will not lengthen my letter longer this time as I want to send it out to day. my love to your mother Aunt C Dan and others

                        remembering there is one whose share is much larger than all the rest it is

                        you Dear Agnes

                                    from your true love

                                                F C Miller

                                                            To Agnes F V             write soon to me

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