Annapolis Md. Sept 10^th/63

 

Dear Mother.

             Your letter of the 2^nd inst came duly to hand.

 

I was sory to hear that you thought I did my self & you injustice in my last letter to you.

 

You knew when I enlisted I enlisted for three year's no mater what came & although I was in hopes at that time that I should not have to serve over a year yet I calculated to serve untill I was discharged for some other reason than because I got sick of it & as for being to young it would be simply foolish to ask for it on that account after serving a year in perfect health all the time besides i am not at all sick of soldiering and there is one more reason why I do not wish to except of you kind offer I do not like to begin any thing / & not go through with it, nor never did.

 

            I know what the boys would say down in the Company if they heard any such thing of me they would say I did not think Glover would leave the company in that way and I think their good opinion will be worth some thing to me in years to come living as they do all arround Saginaw with in a range of fifty miles I know they all have a good opinion of me now what ever they profess & I want to keep the good opinion of them.

 

I can make all up for what I loose in my studdies after I come back, think not that I shall loose sight of the importance of my studdies in the excitement of a soldiers life on the contrary there has hardly been a day pass but I have thought of it & very often a dozen times a day I feel it every day that I go to write. Under present appearences I hope the war will end sooner than Father thinks 

 

Commissioner Meredith has gone to City Point to arrange an exchange and from what the papers say of the Presidents policy I think he will affect one if he does we shall be back to the regiment in less than a month.

 

I have forgoten to mention Capt Thompson in my letters heretofore although I ment to speak of his bravery in my first letter after my arrival here in my opinion he behaved the bravest of any officer in our regiment. that 3^d of July after the regiment broke he rallied about twenty men or less & charged the whole colum of reb cavalry and yet he got out all right the other officers (who were not wounded) were running helter skelter and did not know what to do.

 

The general sat on his horse as cool as could be in front of the men / called on his men to rally & I would ask no braver general than Custer. I get a paper every day or to & it gives me a great deal of pleasure to read them for there is more news in them to me than in two Baltimore papers. I hope you are all well I am in very good health. My love to all

 

Your Son

Glover

 

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Annapolis

Sept. 10, 1863

Tells of Capt. Thompson's bravery

& also of General Custer at Gettysburg

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