To all whom it may concern.

 

            The bearer hereof Silas Good, a private of 1^st Lieut Jacob Widaman’s Co. (“G”) Eighth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, aged twenty-one years, five feet, six and-a-half inches high, light complexion, blue eyes, light hair, and by profession a farmer; born in Autreville, Wayne Co. Indiana, and enlisted at Winchester, in the Co. of Randolph, State of Indiana, on the twentieth day of August, 1861. to serve for the period of three years, or during the war; is hereby permitted to go to Noblesville in the county of Hamilton, State of Indiana, he having received a Furlough from the fourteenth day of March 1863, to the third day of April 1863, at which period he will rejoin his company or regiment at Ste. Genevieve, Mo., or wherever it may then be, or be considered a deserter.

 

            Subsistence has been furnished to said Private Silas Good, to the 15^th day of March, 1863, and pay to the 31^st day of December 1862, both inclusive.

 

            Given under my hand, at Ste. Genevieve, Mo, this thirteenth day of March, 1863.

           

                                                                                    Jacob Widaman 1^st Lieut.

                                                                                    Com’d’g Co. G 8^th Regt. Ind. Infty.

 

[overleaf]

 

Approved

In accordance with

late conscript act

of Congress

David Shunk

Col Comdg 8^th Ia Infty

 

often when not on the tented field

I have thought of you when on my

lonely picket post I would could imagine

that I could hear your sweet voice sining

praises to to god

When the soft eye rest upon these lines

or when this heart is light and gay or lone

and sad Thoult give a thougt to me

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