Cha^s

 

New Berne N.C.

May 31^st 64

 

Dear Father:

                        I received to-day a letter from Mary Bacon forwarded by you. Nothing from home since my last. The mails are getting very irregular indeed. More boats come than go, however, which makes us the gainers. We get the N.Y. papers four days old and consider ourselves pretty well posted. Everybody here is sour over / Butler's failure. It would be a good thing if he could be ordered to Lowell Mass. and his troops to Hannover Court House. We are having it a little cooler. I have had the neuralgia in the face, and had three teeth extracted. Only one was an offending member. The others were necessary sufferers for the extraction of the right one at the hands of a blundering Dentist. Now I'm all right. Has my article on Goddard been / published? If so, I wish you would send it to me. The General hasn't seen it. I saw Mr Wait's piece in the Aurora on Capt M^cCall. We have no news to communicate, but confine our talents to receiving and digesting it from abroad a la Oyster. Please have some of the family write soon to theirs

 

with much love

Charlie.

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