William H. Woodward to Mary L. Woodward et al., 8 April 1865
ME
                                                                                    Cavalry Depot Near City Point
                                                                                                            April 8th /65
Dear Sisters
as it is Sunday Morning I will Scrabble now a few lines to let you all know how I am getting along
 
            I am well and in good health I hope this letter will find you the same it is a nice pleasant morning here I suppose some of you have gon to Church to day I could go if I wanted to
 
                                                                                    I got the Boston Journal Yesterday that some of you sent. we heard good news last night from Sherdian he is fast overpowering the Rebel Army. I hope General Sherman Words will come true he said/that he should muster out his Army by July next the Rebels cannot hold out much longer we are sure of that.
 
                        I write home so often that I dont know hardly what to write. I dont know but what you all think I am alone I am not I tent alone but I have pleanty of Comping here whare I stop.
 
            I stop about as far from Headquarters as our House is from Aunt Vinys.
 
                        Maj Tucker has his Wife here and one small boy and the Captain of a Gun Boat has his Wife here and two small Girles the Camp is snug to the James River whare I am I do not stope whare Dismounted Camp is that is about as fare from here as it is down to Beans Beans/
 
            it is a very pleasant here we can see all the Boats that passes up and down the river I have seen the Boat that the Prisadent goes in I tell you it is a nice looking Boat.
 
I can go to City Point when I want to. Father wanted to know if I get pleanty of Clothing to ware tell him I do
 
                                                                                    Uncle Jimmy Wife wrote me a letter she wrote as Aunt to me and I suppose I must call her the same in return.
 
                                                                                    it is time that I got a letter from Esq Lowell Grant I wrote to him sometime ago I should like for some of you to put me in some Gum you can send it in a letter write soone and as often as you can your letters is alwas welcome goodby/
 
give my best Respects to all the Folks  W. H. Woodward
                                    This letter includes
 
                        Mary & Priscilla
                                    Eleazbath & Ellen
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(1392)DL0208.02722Letters1865-04-08

Letter from William Henry Woodward, 1st Maine Cavalry, Cavalry Depot Near City Point, Virginia, April 8, 1865, to his sisters, Mary, Priscilla, Elizabeth, and Ellen


Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Discharge/Mustering Out, Newspapers, Peace, Philip Sheridan, Religion, William T. Sherman

People - Records: 5

  • (564) [writer] ~ Woodward, William Henry
  • (566) [recipient] ~ Woodward, Mary L.
  • (567) [recipient] ~ Woodward, Priscilla Moulton
  • (568) [recipient] ~ Woodward, Elizabeth W.
  • (569) [recipient] ~ Woodward, Ellen J. ~ Moulton, Ellen J.

Places - Records: 2

  • (176) [origination] ~ City Point, Prince George County, Virginia
  • (384) [destination] ~ York, York County, Maine

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William H. Woodward to Mary L. Woodward et al., 8 April 1865, DL0208.027, Nau Collection