Camp Hubard, La, August , 11^th, 1863

 

            Frank I write some to day to pass A way the time I am sorry to hear you hafter Be urged to write to me I think it is hard I should think you would wanter write Every week so I would know how you was it will learn you to write & you will never Be sorry for it I hope you wont hafter Be told A Boutit Eny more if you should I should feel vary sorry I hope you will Be A good Boy & mind your mother. when you forgit what I have writen to you you git what letters I have writen to you & Read them over & see the advice I have writen to you I want you to do as near as you can what I have writen to you I have no objection to you to all places of Amusment onley ceap out of Bad company you can see & hear without Being with Bad Boys sutch as Bad language & stell Eny thing tha can / git thear hands on. Rember this you must tell the truth at all times for A lier is dispized By Every good man. Frank if you was hear this afternoon to see the solgers setting A Round in camp in the shade some plaing cards some one thing & some A nother tha apear to enjoy themsefs first Rate I tell you some A smoking & tha appear to take comfert some are writing letters some are Reading newspapers it looks comical I can tell you you have seen in picteurs the camp life of solgears. I have seen it Real for I have Benn ther my self & Enjoid all cindes of A solgers life I know what it is it is some times hard & some times Eazy But one haftoo Be deprived of things for his comfert we hafter do the Best as we can taint onley one But thousands tha tell A Bout A solger saving mony thear aint one out of A hundred / that haves A nughf to last them from one pay day to A nother tha Enjoy it as long as it last I tell you I dont Blame no one for Enjoing him self while in the army if he can mony or no mony. the paper has jest come I must stop & Read I will put tenn cents in this letter in the next letter I will send you one dolar if you git what I have sent you. I want you to write how all of the nabors git A long & how jo ingraham git A long this sumer & all of the folks let me know how marting got A long with his haying whither it Cost him mutch & if his crops looks well & if he will have A noughf to winter his stork on this winter I hope he will have good luck this summer he has had Bad luck A noughf for three or four years it is time for him to have good luck / now tell him I wish him well & hope he will do well if he is A Copperhead he will Repent the day Before he dies. I dont know But he has change his mind sence I left home I hope so

 

[upside down] Frank you must write as I told you

 

Eliza I wrote in my other letter Before this A fiew lines to Mr. Lewis & you hand it to him yourself I wrote to him to let you have what mony you want you will see what I wrote yourself thirty two Dolars will last you & Frank till I git my pay A gain if it dont he has got mony Enoughf of mine to let you have or frank if he calls on him for it no more at preasent good By to all

Eliza. ann. Holmes.     Asa Holmes

 

Mary. A. Delia. & . Frank. A. Holmes

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