Head Quarters Engineer Brigade

                                                Washington D.C.

           

                                                Dear Agnes

 

                        this beautiful morning I take the pleasure to reply to your welcome letter which I received yesterday it was a welcome visitor for indeed I was getting very uneasy I sometimes thought you were sick or if not you some of the family but I am glad to know you are all blessed with health. I am still enjoying my usual good health hoping you all may be likewise blest when this reaches you we are again back to Washington we left Harpers ferry on Sunday morning and reached this place yesterday morning we came by railroad but you see we are moving around well. I am much better contented to be moving than I would be if I were to stay in one camp so long and I think a greatdeal heathier the sun is fast rising so you see I have beat it/

 

up but I have seen the sun rise many a time since I have been soldiering but nothing is more beautiful than to be up early and watch the sun rising our regiment is now all together it being the first time in over a year but I expect we will soon be scattered through the army again we are expecting our pay before we leave here I hope we will get it, for when we are here we can easily send our money home. there is not much news from our army at present. I do not think there will be much fighting for a month or two only with cavalry. I only wish the last battle was fought and once more peace restored but I am afraid such is not the case as the armies have again returned to the rappanhannock but the heights of Fredericksburg are held by our men this time we will not have to climb the heights to fight them if they want to ocupy the heights they will have to drive our men of and I do not believe they can do it for it is a very strong position and a few men can hold out against a pretty large force.

 

well Agnes I am glad to hear you say you were not frightened when the rebles were in the old/Keystone state I tell you I think they got enough of it before they got out. I do not think they will try it again in a hurry I only wished they had stayed in it a little longer for if they had I do not think very many of them would have ever reached Virginia only as prisoners well Dear Agnes I have talked full to long on the war subject as I do not think it will interest you much. you see Agnes I have never doubted you love for me and I hope I will never have any reason to do so for I loved you from the first evening that we were seated in the doorway but I did not dare to mention the like, as I was then engaged to another whom I did love, but for reasons which I have told you I could not love as I should and we mutually agreed to disagree since then I have turned my whole attention toward you one whom I knew could sympathize with me and one who I knew I could love still more. my affections for you grow stronger evry day and I long for the time when I can be seated by your side that we may both reallize the truth of our affections I now bid you Adieu for this time my love to all from your affectionate lover

 

            F C Miller       to Agnes

SOURCES