Engineer Depot            Washington D C

                                                                                                            March 27^th 1864

 

                        My Dear Agnes

           

                        this beautiful sabbath morning I take the pleasure to answer a letter which came from a young lady whom I love as I love my self perhaps you know her her name is Agnes Voris. well Dear Agnes I was much pleased to receive such a speedy reply but much more pleased because I love the writer knowing how you are situated I did not look for a letter so soon and you know I will not complain if I do have to wait sometimes pretty long for an answer. it is as you have said one of your letters are worth two of mine for I generally write short letters I do not have much to write about but hope you will not shorten yours because I do. I love long letters and espeicially when they are written by one whom I love. my visit was short but Dear Agnes I enjoyed it very much but if we live it will not be long till I can come and pay a visit with out having any given time to return such a visit will perhaps be pleasant to both of us/

 

I have had splendid health since my return and live in hopes of retaining the same if care will be the benefit my tent mate is quite sick this morning I think something like the fever quite number are sick here principally new recruits. there has been quite a deep snow here since my return on monday night last it fell to the depth of eight inches but since then we have had rain and warm sunshine and this morning there is no snow to be seen nothing but the gray fields on one side and the city on the other though not a beautiful one and yet one object which would arrest the eye is the capitol building of this great nation on its large beautiful dome is reared the Bronze statue the goddess of America though it looks not larger than a person at a distance it is twenty one feet and its weight is immense and yet another view is beautiful from our camp we can look upon the broad potomac for some distance and see at any hour the large steam vessels ploughing through the water like a mad monster of the great deep but yet all these gives not the happiness to a certain ones heart that one quiet hour would give by the side of her to whom this is written one peacefull hour in the society of those I love so dearly is worth all the days of noise and bustle in the army or in the/city the sun is shining in my window so beautiful and warm. what a pleasure it is how we are blest in this world at times and how little we regard the blessing which is bestowed upon us I often think those of us who are the most blest with health and many other earthly blessings are the very ones who do not appreciate the source from where they come. I will not lengthen my letter much longer. in your next I wish you would please tell me if you have handed Cousin Mary Marshall my likeness yet and tell me what she said when you gave it to her I have written her a letter since I returned to find out where my cousin lives in Philadelphia a sister of Mary’s. if I live I intend comeing home by the way of said city. there is no army news this week all of our old men have returned who reenlisted some of them pretty sick of it but they are fast for another three years and if it were me I should take it cool

 

                                    I now close my love to your mother Aunt C Dan and others.

            reserve the portion due your self which is large from your affectionate lover

                                                                                                F C Miller to Agnes Voris

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