Camp Lanman Oct 28^th 1862.

 

                        My Dear Wife;

                                                Coony arrived here last night about 7 o'clock. David and I had just been released from our post on guard and was snugly piled down in one corner of the guard-house for the four hours repose, when Frank Long came in and called for me. I asked him what he wanted of me? The answer—Coony is here! was enough, and two fellows ended up about that time. We asked him all the questions we could think of about affairs at home, (which by the way were not a few) then he produced the letter from you. Every thing was very satisfactorly and well accounted for except your absence. I could not see why you did not come down to Jefferson with Cyrus and Mary or why you refused to come down with Pap. I know you and Harvey both have a great deal of work to do—more than you ought to do or can do; but in a year from now you would not miss the time it would have required for you to have made us a visit In case you had come down to Uncle Tiffs with Cyrus and Mary, I had made arrangements with the officers to meet you there on a leave of absence, and I thought that if you started / with Pap you would come all the way down. In my last letter I told you that our clothing had arrived and that it would require some time for its distribution, but in the last I was mistaken, for we all went on dress-parade the same evening in uniform. Coony belongs to Co K, and is now fitting himself out with a suit of uniform. We have rec'd our arms and will likely leave Camp Lanman by the last of this week. Jim Harden will go up to Uncle Tiff's on the train this P.M. for the purpose of meeting Mary. In your next letter let me know whether the Weekly Hawk-Eye is going to you or not. I subscribed for it over two weeks ago. Coony says Cyrus will be here tomorrow, and I guess we will send the remains of our old clothes back with him. Tell Harvey I would like to hear from him. I want him to let me know how French and Queen are getting along and how Tom calf, Rose and the other calves look, and how big the hogs are geting.

 

I am in the City of Burlington today and am writing this letter in the Hawk-Eye office.

 

                                                Your affectionate husband

                                                                                    Enos Reed

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