Bermuda Hundred Va June 5 1864

 

Dear Mother

 

I received your letter you wrote me 29 of the last month the 2 of this month I was very glad to hear from you you dont know how much good it does me to hear from you I wish you or Harriet would write me a few lines every day you have more time to write me then I do to you the reason I hant wrote to you before I had to go on fatigue the next morning after I got your letter and i / did not get back to my company till this morning they 1 Sargent and 8 privates went out of my company and I am one one of them I was very glad to get that hand of tobacco that you sent me you tell Harriet that she made a mistake in calling tobacco she said hand of small of tobacco instead of small hand of tobacco that dont make any diference as long as I got the tobacco I received the papers you sent me how is it for the box are you getting it ready for me I hope you because I want it as soon as I can get it/ be sure and put in all the things sent for when you can some time I want you to make me a good pair of wollen shirts send them to me between this and next fall I want them to be this kinder checkered cloth or this plaid make them large and long If you will send 2 or 3 pieces of flanel just for sample I would be very glad to get them. I stop in the tent with a fellow by the name of Wallace he is a very good sort of fellow I like him as well as any fellow in our company I sent you his picture a spell ago I see his sister / picture a little while ago she is a very good looking girl I wish I could get that picture I would send it to Harriet why dont you send me my picture that you was agoing to send out to me why dont Mary Hamant write to me I wrote to her the other day & I hant got my answer from her yet I dont hear from Tom Lemmon wither you ask them why they dont write to me I am well as I ever was and I hope you are the same I send my love to all of you did you get that letter I sent in Lorenzo Doran letter you let me know if you got it I want you to answer this letter as soon as you get this I must be a drawing to a close

 

this from your Son

            Sylvester H Stevens

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