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                                                                         Catletts Station Va Aug 16^th 63.

 

Ever Dear

                                                                                                                        I have just sent $25 by Maj Brown to Washington to be Expressed to you. we were paid two months pay the 9^th, but this is the first chance I have had to send it, there not being an Express office short of W. I set out to write and send it with the Money but we got orders to March and so I postponed it, but the order was Countermanded and I will try to write you a little. there has nothing of interest occured in this quarter since my last Except the execution of a man belonging to the fifth Maine Infantry for desertion it being the third offence. his name was Thomas Jewett an Englishman by birth I recd yours of the 9^th this morning and you can hardly tell how a letter from you will Cheer my sometimes lonely heart. then Bent Spear is drafted, well what will his/Martha Ann do if he has to come out here again. well I dont know as it will be any harder for them to seperate than a great many others that have already done so. I speak from experience. is Theodore coming or has some one given him the 300 dollars. tell Thomas Walsh that I am glad that he is Exempt from this draft. hoping that before the next the war will come to an end and now while I think of it tell Bent or Elkanah which ever of them comes to be sure and come into the Cavalry. I think they will be satisfied better here than in any other arm of the service. we have Excellent officers the most part of them having been non-commissioned officers, or privates, when the regiment was first organised, and never since leaving Augusta have we had any guard around the regiment but the men are free to go where they please when in Camp. as for me I would sooner be a private in the Cavalry than a Captain in Infantry. but after telling them let them do as they please not urging them/

 

I wrote Huldah the 10^th. I got a sheet of large foolscap and filled it as full as it could be. there the order has come to move at 1. O clock but to what point I cannot tell. it is rumored that we (that is) our division is going to North Carolina, but I think it hardly probable. I think we shall stay in this waste howling winderness the rest of our term I wish we were out of it even now, but this is the third summer I have spent here and am alive yet and I reckon I can if obliged so stay still another but I must close and harness up you see I have no ink. I lost it by lending            give my love to all and reserve a good share for yourself

 

                                                                                    yours forever

                                                                                                Abiezer Weazie

(write as often as you can)

 

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