Camp 93^rd U.S. Inf.

Berwick La. Oct. 3^rd 1864

 

Dear Companion

                                    A week has past since I last wrote and no letter yet, but I still hope that I will get one before I finish this as the train has just come and I am anxiously waiting for some one to come over with the mail wich will soon relieve me of my thinking wether I will get one this mail or not but I fear I will not as my last letter was received the 25^th of last month and answered the same day wich is by this time nearing home a welcome messenger to the one that receives it I hope. I should like very well my self to be nearing my much / loved home and the one I love so dearly. it has been one year one month and seven days since I last saw you and no one knows how much I would give to see you again and have pleasure of being with you a short time this fall and winter if such was the case I could again leave you my dear wife with a cheerful heart never more to return until the last foe shall have expired. I still have the best courage that our arms will eventually be victorious and that soon to. would to god it were now I am and thousands of others are wearing our lives away for a most unjust and wicked war wich was brought upon us by a set of traitors to this once / glorious Union I think it can not be so much longer. this war must close soon or this nation will go to ruin. We the people of the North could if we were all of one opinion suppress this rebellion in six months but a house divided against its self can not stand So it is with the North if the North does not join in mass and say this war must stop we surely will fail in putting down this present rebellion but I hope there is not traitors enough to accomplish it However I fear they are prolonging this war years

 

I shall now close as it is getting quiet dark and hope to hear from you often. Give my regards to Father and Mother and all good Union people Yours as ever

                                                                                                            Jake

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