Harpers Ferry

                                                                                                            July 26^th 1863

 

                                                Dear Agnes

 

                                    this beautiful sabbath morning I again take my seat to write you another letter I can find more pleasure in writing to you than I can in any thing els I still enjoy my usual good health hoping when this reaches you that you all may be likewise blest Agnes I have had no letter from you yet but I am looking very anxiously for one in the next mail which I hope we will get to day we have had no mail for several days how lost I am when we cannot get our mail the last letter I received from you was dated in june so you can immagine how anxious I am to get a letter I sometimes think you are sick or some of the family so that you cannot write but I hope not. we had a hard thunder storm here on last evening/and I must tell you we got a beautiful ducking. we have been getting out ponton boats which were partly destroyed. all last week were in the water. I believe I mentioned of us working on last sunday in the letter which I wrote in the evening and on last evening we had three boats to get from the river into the canal and while we were doing it it commenced to rain and I never seen it rain harder in my life than it did for about one hour we were all completely soaked but as such a thing is nothing new for a soldier we did not mind it while it was raining I was standing by a large rock to which I had a line attached for drawing out boats from the river I stood still for at least a half hour and I thought of you if you were to see me standing by the rock and it raining so hard. I tell you Dear Agnes I often think of what us soldiers have to stand and yet how merry the most of us are but how we can enjoy our lives if we live to get home no one can tell. I bid you adieu for this morning as I have to go to work we see no sunday here./

 

well Agnes we have got through with our work it is now three oclock our mail has arrived but no letter from Agnes why this long delay I will not ask the reason for I know you there must be something the matter I cannot write you a long letter this time for I have nothing to write about we are here among the mountains and every thing is dull the army has all passed into Virginia again well I will now close hoping soon to hear from you my love to your Mother Aunt C. Dan & all who may inquire for me

                        except the love of your true love

                                                Francis C Miller

                                                            to Agnes

 

                                                Sergt. F. C. Miller

                                                            Co. A. 50^th Regt NYVE

Care of                                                            Washington DC

Capt Ford

                                    this is my correct address

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