Camp near Stephensburgh Va. Jan 30^th/64

 

Dear Father.

              Your letter of the 25^th inst was received last evening the first I have received for about two weeks. I have never received the one which Mother wrote she sent a photograph in.

 

I wrote to cousin Sarah to tell you to send me some stamps or I should not write again but I have concluded to write once more & ask for some.

 

In reguard to Capt Clippertons proposal for me to go as clerk in Washington I understood him to say he was agoing to get an other place & that he could get me in as clerk for him I only spoke to him a few minutes one evening & he promised to see me again so / we could talk about it, but that was the last time I saw him & I should have given him a diferent answer in half an hour after if I had seen him.

 

I spoke with out taking the second thought I saw he ment it for a kindness & so I said yes but had scarcly left him before I was sorry for it but he promised to see me again & I thought I could make it all right with him then.

 

I should not like it in Washington. I know I could get acquainted with more of the buisness men of the states by being thare but I am no hand to get acquainted with any one.

 

Our orderly sergent has gone home on recruiting service & there is no one in the company who has any idea he will ever come / back to the company, he will try they think to get a comision in some colord regiment & if he does not come back & the Capt gives me quarter master sergent place as he has promised why then I shall be entitled to the orderlys place in line of promotion & I have heard hints from pretty good sources to that effect.

 

It is only two or three days since I wrote home last & I can think of no news to wright except that the boys heard heavy firing off to the right of our lines to day boath musketry & cannonading & as we know of no movement of our troops I think it very likely the rebs were having that little fus amongst them selves which the deserters said they would have. Well our soldiers had as leaves the war would end that way as any other. 

 

I don't receive any papers from home except about every ten days. the tribunes you send are so old by the time they get here that there is not much news in them.

 

Be sure to send those stamps and a good lot too for I do need to have six or seven you can not buy any here they are so scarce.

 

This leaves me in good health except that looseness of the bowels it can scarcly be called a diahroea now

 

Much love to all.

                                                                                  

Your affectionate son,

Glover

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