January 1^st 1864

                                                                                Camp near Cedre Mountain

 

Dear Wife

                        I seat my self this beautiful morning to write to you. I wish you and Luie A Happy New Year, And O may it be a year of happy ness to us all to what it was last. I hope you will take more comfort at last. when I think how many unhappy dayes you have had this year I can not help but feal bad for you and Luie. I wish I wer there to live with you this year but as I am not I must make/ the best of it. but I hope this year will not be as disageable as the last has been, do not you. we have had vary bad wether now for a weak. we came in from Picket day be fore yestarday. it was warm and pleasant while we wer out, but we had not more than got in to Camp when it began to wrain and it did not stop untill last night. to day it is warm and pleasant but auful muddy we can not step with out getting in mud or water. it is all most imposable for the teams to travel in the road. but I hope it will freeze up pretty soon/ so it will be better getting arround. we ar building log tents to live in this winter I suppose we will have nice time when we get settled down. that is nice as such a kind of life can be, but I tell you Sarah it is no Childs play. it is an old saying that any thing all most is a good traid well followed. but I do not believe Soldiering is or can be a good traid if it is followed ever so well do you. a good many that go home descharged soon enlist again because it is so lonesom they say but they will not have to descharge me but once I do not believe do you/ I have not had a letter in over a weak from you, but if you do not write oftener I will have to write to some of the Girles wont I hay, for letters I must have any way if my Gall will not write them some body else es Gal will I reckon. I shall look pretty sharp to night for one, and I hope I will not be desappynted, but I will end for this time. hoping this will find you well as it leaves me. so good by Dear Sarah. take good cair of your self and Luie. my love to you. from your Albert

 

                                                            Albert R Whitney

Sarah & Luie

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