Camp near Cedre Mountain March 17^th 1864

 

Dear Sarah

                        I thought it a good plan to write a fiew lines to My Own Dear Sarah this mornning for I am fealling quite lonesom and all the way I can enjoy my self at the presant time is to write to you and converse on paper a little but it takes so long to get an answor but is it not a grate blessing that we can talk even that way. it has been nearly a weak since I have had a letter from you. if it did not cost so much for paper and Stamps would like to have you write every day, but I know you have all you can do to keep allong and so I will not ask as much of you as that. but I would like two letter a weak I have not had hardly one a weak for a long time. I have put in one dollar which I have borrowed and I wish you would get me 90 cents worth of three cent stamps and 10 cents worth of two cent stamps and send me in your next letter. then I will write oftener to you than I do. I have put in 10 cents for little Luie to put in his little Bank. you can give it for 10 pennys. well/ I must stop writing now and get my dinnar I have got Bake Potatoes, Bread and Butter, Unions cut up in Vinegar, stewed Buries, and Coffee. now I have got through eating and Sargeant Mason wants me to onload a load of rails for our Company to burn. nearly all the wood we have burnt this winter has been Sesesh Rails. we have drawed all there is within one mile of our Camp. it would take one man five years to split what rails we have burnt this winter, but what of that it is all going on towards our three years. our time looks a good deal shorter than it did when we first came to Suffolk. it is but one year and five months now. when we get on the last half of our time it seams much shorter than the first half. I can but feal thankful to God for spearing my life through as many dangers as I have passed through since I have been in the army. no one can know any thing about the army untill they have been in it. but will it not be a happy day when the Soldiers get home. but I can tell you one thing there will be a hard set of boys then for nearly all have burnt to steal, and it will be vary strange if they do not/

 

[margin] practace it after the war is over but you can rest asshure that I shall be a bout as willing to stay at home as I use to be, and I guess about as honest as ever, for I have seen so much develtry here that I am perfectly disgusted with such kind of actions

 

but Dear Sarah I must end for this time so good by. take good cair of Your self and Luie. I am ever your true Husband

 

                        Sarah & Luie                                       Albert R Whitney

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