Goles Burough North Carilinay

Aprile the 7 1865

 

Dear father & mother and sisters & brothers

with pleaseure I seat my selfe to drop you A few lines to let you no that I and James Ar boath well & harty and well satisfide as could be expected James is working in the black smith shop now we ar having A nice time of it now I go to town every day and get chease and bread and bring it out to the ridgement and sell it to the boyes and make some money on it but if you will loock at my last leter you will se how mutch money I had when I roat it but in les than an hour after that I went on A stieme boat to by another chease and some theafe picked my pocket he got 3800 dolars in grene backs A 5 dolar goald pen of Jims and A bout 4 dolars worth of stamps and 30 dolars in noats of Jims this was A prety hard draw on me but I had bought my chease and payed for it that was all that saved me at tall I have got on hanes too cheas that will bring me 84 dolars and I have got 8 dolars worth of bread on hans I think I will sell out to morrow I will have A bout one hundred dolars I am going to send /

 

well I will tell you how it is that this leter is done so awkwardly I roat on the first page and when I turned my paper I turned 2 sheats so you se it does loock very awkward you can se I have numberd the pages /

 

I think I will send A bout 15 dolars If we get paid of heare I will send some moar thn that but we doant think that we will get paid of heare the rumer is heare that we will start on another campagn next Monday but we doant no any thing A bout it and if we starte we doant no wheire we ar destind to go report sais Grant is in ritchmond and lee is on the retreating ground and Grants men after him but just waite A few dayes untill oald bills hownes gets after lees armey then you will se how they will go up oald bills boyes can run ten dayes and nites on one hours sleap A nite and they doant stop for any thing any moare un les it is A river then they weight for us to throw A bridg A cross A river and we doe it quick we can put A bridge a cross A river one hundred yards wide in one hour and have troops A crosing and they never stop crosing un till they all get A cross they cros nite and day then they go A head and we stay and take up the bridge and then we have to drive nite and day untill we fetch up with the train and just as apt as not we will fetch up within A few miles of Another river and that nite have / to make another bridg and then we would get to rest one day and one night then take up the bridg and trot A gaine but I would mutch rather make the bridges for the troops to cross on and go A head and drive the rebles on out of hour way well I must cloase by saying I hope these few lines will come to hand in due time and finde you all well and harty and doing well I got A leter from saul last weake they was all well and harty James got A leter from home to day his famely was all well and harty

 

            So fare well for this time well Sarah I would like to heare from you and July I would like to heare from you

 

pap I would like to heare from you all but if you have all forsaken me I cant help it

 

            rite soone and oftin I would rite oftiner but A soaldier has A hoard chance to rite

                                                From youre loving Sone

                                                Wm C Hubbard

                                    to his loving father and Mother

                        & sisters          G Hubbard & C Hubbard

 

well father this is the morning of the 8 and it is pretty nice morning it is after raining pretty nigh all nighte and theire is no mud in our camp it is sandy ground and it drinks the water pretty ni as fast as it falls well pap the sumer is in camp this morning that Sheridan has got a head of it and took for 20 thousand moare of his men prisners and that cold General Wheler sent in a flag of truse to Sherman yestardy and he said he would serender his hoale force  providing  Sherman would treat them as priseners of ware and oald Billy toald them to come on this is only rumer we doant no whether it is fear not we doant belive it it took for us at least a weake to believe that grant had taken Ritchmond well father I will cloase for I no you will get tired of reading this for there haint nothing of importance in it I want you to answer it as soone as it comes to hand if you please and tell me how times is and give me all the general newesse tell me how oald grand mother is getting at long rite soon and oftin all of you

                                                Wm. C. Hubbard

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