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