Alexandria Oct the 11 1862

 

My Dear Nila I now take my pen in to answer your letter which I received day before yesterday and was glad to hear that you and all the rest wer well I should like to get a letter from windsor and thear a bouts for then I think that I should be well posted but I dont expect it and so I am not disapointed in the least we had a good rain hear last night the first that we have had for some time and this morning the ground is just like greas the 33 Regiment whitch was incamped right in sight us went last night about dark and some say that thear was some thousands went by our camp but I did not se them they have left / to join Sigles Command it is thought but I dont know probaley we should have gon had it not ben for the measles which we have in our Reg thare is some three or four cases and quite anumber that have never had them so I think that we shall stay hear a spell but still cannot tell we may moove and we may not this winter we are right under the frowning guns of Fort Lyons whitch they say that the man that has the charge of the guns and amnition in the fort that it would command the cuntry for seven milds a round and thear is 2 others in sight perhaps you would like to hear what I think of this state well I dont like it as well as you may think perhaps you had not got the same ide of it as I had / I thought that it would be a little leveler than it is thear is hills and holows and ditches but no fences except once in a great while Mr Torey was out on battalion Drill and he had a kind of a fitt he has had them two or three times before he was got up to his tent and he lay as though he was asleep when all at once he jumped up and pulled of his coat and then grabed his gun whitch was in the rack and says that man must die and went at the boys but they grabed him before he did aney hurt and he was carried to the hospital in the camp and I have not heard from him this morning so I dont know how he is this morning the whitman boys stand it deacantley well / some times they think that they have rather harder times than they expected and they loock as though they had lost all the friends they ever had and then they gather courage and then all is right I was glad to hear that you had Companey I think that I shall some time be thear to take tea with you and the rest of the neighbors for when I get home we will go and take tea with all of them if god spairs our lives Trust in god prey without ceacing and leave our selves in the hands of god well I can write no more this time but by the blessing of god I can tell you that my health and that of E M Hubbard is good I am as tough as ever and growing fat all the time now may god bless you kiss them Children and tell them to be good

                                                                        Albert N Hubbard

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