Syracuse Mo Feb 14

 

Dear Ruth i received your letter of the 2 of Feb to day it gives me joy and peace to hear that you are all well i am well except a bad cold i was writeing a letter to SSS when i received your letter a (letter from home and loved ones there) well i sent $25 dollars to you by express i paid $1.25 hear to express it so that you would not have to pay any thing to get it i directed it to Ruth Scoville cochranton Po Marion Co Ohio but i will direct to New Bloomington

 

our monthly inspection was today we mak a good apearance / with our blew frock coats and blact hats feather bugle eagle and buttons Napsacks and guns well we sent out some piqet gards last night the rebbels have been stealing som horses and forming a little band 4 or 5 milds from hear but they did not atact us last night and they had better not if there is only 4 companys of us hear we can whip twise our nomber of the confounded scamps and do it easy to. maby i will be at home in may i think the rebelion will be crushed by that time well if i could see you and little toty to nite yes and all the rest of you but i must sleep on my pallet of straw / i have three blankets good ones to i will fech them home with me and maby a nice mule or two and some other trinkets

 

this is friday i put a letter letter in the office yesterday to you. well i must close this before dress perade

 

            well i will not write any poetry this time for my feet is cold i thank you for those sweet lines that you sent to me

 

                                                                        your affectionate husband untill death

                                                                                                J G Scoville to

                                                                                                Ruth and

                                                                                                            children

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