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Mrs V. A. Hubbard

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Harpers Ferry Apr the 4

            My Dear wife I now take my pen in hand to inform you of our wheare abouts when last I wrote you we wer in Martinsburg well we started from thear the 2 of Aprill and about 7 oclock and we got on the wrong road so that we went out of our way some 15 milds and what was worse than all it rained and snowed all day hard and the mud mud was over our shoes a most all the way and well we got to Hall town about 6 oclock and went into a woods and staid till morning and then we started and came into the ferry or rather Camp hill not on our old camp ground for that is all destroyed but close by it and to day we have ben over to it and tore up the rest of the stockade and leveled the ground all off for we have got some new A tents and have from four to six in a tent but the mud and gravel made me so lame that I could hardley step we / Marched 30 milds that day and carried our knapsacks and you had better guess that we wer tired and wett through but not a word of complaint from your All that you say has not got spunk enough well Nila if I ever get home you will think that I have got enough left yet well how are you and the little ones to night for it is storming like fun hear some snow and some rain and is all togather pleasant hear I hear to day that one of our boys that we left at martinsburg in the hospital sick died last night his name was Thomas Leeson and I think I have written you that H P Merrill was buried up thear so we lost 2 two men up thear in the 4 weeks that we wer up thear that makes seven men / that we have lost by death in our companey I will give you the names of them as they have died

 

Henry Nobles              died at

Calvin Nobles             fort Lyon

Wm A Hamley           died at

Henry P Merrill          died at

Thomas Leeson           martinsbu

                                    martinsburg

 

but I thank god that I can say to My Dear Nila in this letter that my health is good I must stop for I am getting tired for I am lying right flat on a board and flat on my Beley so you can judg

                                                                                    good Night Nil

I shall

send this                                                                      A. N. Hubbard

some time                                                                   Co B 34

to you                                                                          34

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