Hd Qtr's. Picket reserve near Farifax C.H. June 16^th/63

 

            Dear Mother & Jamie

                                    Yours & Fathers kind letters of the sixth ins't came duly to hand.

 

You wanted to know if our reg't had been in any fights yet. I believe I wrote to you about the skirmishes they had been in, in a letter writen the fifth ins't but which was not dated. I do not know what reason I can give for not dating it I had it all ready for the office once & tore it open to date it but omited it the second time & never thought of it again until I received your letter. Charley got a letter from home saying that you wished him to speak of me when he wrote as I did not write often. I have writen three letters home to Charlies one in fact I have writen no where else since I have been a soldier except once & that was to George Gage when I was in the Rapids. I do not know how many of them have / reached you.

 

Write to me about the bridge & where it is being built.

 

If you should hear that I had been hirt you must not believe any thing about it untill you get a letter from my self or Charley. we had one boy wounded & taken prisoner & his folks who live in Tuscola county heard that he was wounded & fell from his horse in the woods, & that the woods took fire & he burned up by that you can see what reliance to place in the reports of men who to make every little fight appear a battle.

 

That boy is in camp with his parol now & has mearly a flesh wound which is fast healing

 

Write a bout the men in the rapids for our reg't

 

Love to all

From your son

Glover.

 

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June 16, 1863

Fairfax Va.

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