Berlin Aug 31^st/62

 

Dear Fannie

                        I am once again seated in the office for the purpose of writing you. I reached home the evening after I left you at about six oclock, after a tedious ride of nearley forty miles in a tiresom old coach. I found two letters for me when I reached home one from you and the other from my dear Mother. she was feeling very bad on the account of my enlisting. she said that it seemed to her like giving me up to be butchered in the most cruel way the Rebels could invent, but she closed by finally giving me her blessing with the assurance / of her prayers and good wishes for my welfare and safe return. I knew she would take it hard at first for I was always a sort of favorite with her, being the youngest. you know they are generally peted and spoiled with over indulgences. but she is the best friend tht I ever had or ever shall have, always ready with her counsel & advice to guide my erring feet in the paths of rectitude. I have often wondered how she ever had patience to labor with me as she has.

 

            Then Fannie you wish me to give your brother a good sound whipping if I should chance to meet him do you. perhaps I should want to let the job out when I meet him for he might be to much for me I think if I do meet him I will give him some good advice and send him home to you / to be whipped for I think he would put up with a whipping from you better than he would from me. he probably is at heart no more of a Rebel than his Sisters but has been pursuaded to take the step he has by those whom he thought friends so Fannie you must look upon his sin with all allowance possible.

 

            Well Fanny it is monday evening and I am as tired as a dog I have been drilling our company almost all day and it is tiresom work I’ll assure you. we are it appears not able to get into the 21^st Regiment and do not now know when we shall be called into camp probably in a few days.

 

            Fanny when you write next direct to Berlin as before and then if we are called into camp I can have it forwarded to me wherever I may be. how / did you get home from Waupaca all right I hope. I forgot to give you the money Fannie that night to get your likeness taken you must pardon the oversight and I will try to do better in the future but it is now late and I must close so now good by. God bless you write soon & believe me your as ever                                                                              Frank M Guernsey

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