Camp Seward Vir

Nov 30 1862

 

            My Dear wife

I received your letter yesterday the sad news it contained did not come so unexpected to me as it might for I was confident in my own mind when I received your letter friday that something was not rite

 

but oh Julia it came heavy on me and I do not no what to say to you I expect she had every thing don for her that could be don but if I could only have ben ther to took the poor little thing up in my arms and carried her about and kissed her pale little face it would have / ben a great comfort to me you no how she loved for me to hold her but alas the good lord saw fit to take her away and I shall have to submit hard as it is but it is a great consolation to me to think the poor little thing has got through with all her sufferings she was only lent to us she will no nomore the wickedness of a cold hearted world but I do beleive she will have part in the first reserrection when she will come forth among the shineing ones haveing her robes washed and made white. I expect she will look more beautifull than she did when she wore her little hat and red dress to meeting when she used to take gusta by the hand and run / along ahead of us to meeting I wish we had her minitire taken as she looked then I want you to write to me and led me no how you got her home and when she was burried and who tended the funerel and where the text was and all about it

 

I pity you my dear wife for I no you was verry mutched atached to her as well as me I no with what ancious care you watched over her but you could not save her life. I do not blame you for not writing about it you don just the same as I should have don I pity my mother and your mother I no how my mother must have felt I no how she loved Corda how she used to come in and hold her / hold her in her arms when she did not feel well and how mutch care she used to take of her

 

and poor little augusta what will she do with out her she was her constant companion evere where and I expect her little hart is almost broke but then she is yong and will soon forget it

 

I feel verry glad that you are so well reconciled as you are if you have help you must thank the Lord for it

 

I cannot write anything more at present my health is very good at presend pleas write all the particulars about corda as soon as you can from your afectionate

 

            husband                       C W Gooch

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