Hilton Head August 9^th 1862

 

Dear Brother and friend

                                                I received your letter of the sixteenth of July on yesterday and we was very glad to hear from you as we had not heard from you for some three or four weeks I got the last letter from you the 6^th of July

 

Crawford got one from Maxwell about the midle of last month and that was the last we had heard from you I wrote to Max on the 16^th and to you on the 27^th of last month your letter found us still enjoying good health we are still here at Port Royal this is getting to be quite a place the weather is getting to be very hot but the men stand it very well day before yesterday was the hottest day the 7^th was the warmest day we have had yet. if it was not for the breeze that that is mostly blowing a person / could not go out or be out long in the sun So we are about as pleasantly situated as we could be any place and I suppose will stay here until the hot weather is over I think there be nothing done here until there is more men sent here and there will not be any more sent down here until the weather begins to get cool there was six Regt sent from here to the James River our Regt. was pretty near going but we are about as well satisfied that we did not get off we would have had it harder there than here and when this month and next is over the weather is pleasant I think that Richmond will be taken before long there is no danger but what it will be taken any person that thinks our government cannot put down this Rebellion sympathises with the Rebels there is no half way about it them / that doubts and says that this and that is wrong and that the war is no nearer over than it was a year ago are traitors at heart and are doing just as much for to continue the war as if they were in the Rebels army I suppose that you have got the grain all in by this time and a good part of the hay made. You wrote to Crawford about sending you a dollar to get that base drum fixed. he says that he will by a tenor drum when he can get one reasonable and I would advise you not to get a base drum they are onely used in brass bands the drum Corps of a regt. has no base drum. I wrote some time ago that I would send you a fife I have not got one yet such things are hard to get here we sent a box of old clothing home last month we sent our money by exppress on 16^th of July I sent four hundred dollars and Crawford sent 25 I exspect it / reached altoona before this time I not got much to write you since I have set down to write I have concluded to send you and anna a present of five dollars you have been a good boy I suppose you have you can get it changed and give ann two dollars and you will have three left do not spend it foolishly get something with it that will be of use to you

 

tell ann to be a good girl and mind what mother says hopeing that you both will try to do what is wright I now close answer this letter as soon as you get it

 

                                                Yours affectionately

                                                                                    Geo. H. Gwin

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