City Point Va.

July 31^st 1864

 

My Dear Agnes

                                               

            this warm sabbath morning I am seated to write you another weekly letter this being the fourth one I have written and no answer. your last was written or that I received was dated June 30^th but I have been waiting patiently and I am not yet weary of waiting for I think there must be some good cause for not receiving a letter from you. well I have learned how long I will have to serve yet my time expires on the 15^th of September but I will get home perhaps before the 25^th so you see I must wait patiently. while writing this to you the boys are eating their breakfasts at present I am on board of some canal boats as guard have eight men with me we came on board friday morning last since then I have slept but very little on friday night we were/taking of ponton material and last night one of the captains on board of one of the boats was arrested on suspicion for aiding soldiers to desert and I had to keep up a strong guard until this morning but I am in hopes I will get the benefit of a good days rest to day and a favorable nights sleep to night. I am well as usual and hope Dear Agnes is likewise blest also those of her friends & relatives since I last wrote you I have heard from my brother he has been relieved of his position as a wagon master and ordered to report to his regiment to return home. I am glad of it he has been a faithful soldier. our army is yet lying here and are evry day strengthening their works. yesterday morning there was a pretty hard fight for some three hours in which time our troops blew up a fort and what the result is I have not yet learned but hope it is a loss to them and a gain to us this is going to be a very hot day. I wish I was somewhere to get read of the heat say up north you know where talking to some young lady about the size of Agnes Voris I long to see you Dear Agnes. it will be a/long month I know this next one but we must not hurry time for it flies swiftly by us much of it unimproved. I have been very careless and regardless of the past only to think it has been three long years since I first know you does it seem so long it does not certainly to me although when we look at the changes that has taken place since then we can look back and reflect with many a sad thought in our hearts and say time is short and and waits for no man. but like the reapers sickle cuts down all some in youth others in the prime of life and others in old age. but the last three years very many have fallen in the prime of life. well my Dear Agnes I have no news of importance to write you and as it is so very warm I will close hoping this may soon reach the one I love so well. my love to your Mother Aunt C Dan and others. but for your self except the love of one who loves sincerely from your

true lover

 

                        F C Miller to

                                    Agnes F Voris

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