U. S. Sanitary Commission.

Cavelry Corps Hospital Ward 8^th 1864

near city point             Sunday the 24 1864

 

My Dear Wife

            I am well once more and can eat as much as the next man but i am very poor and weak but getting through every day easy hour and minnet i shall have to leave in a few days i guess but no one has said any thing yet about it we have a very kind laydy hear that gives you evry thing you want that she has she got my bill changed for a Green Back the money that father sent was no good hear but now i got evry thing all right i have been hear just one week and i want to stay until i get stronger wich i hope will soon be so that i can join the regiment then i can get all my letters straight stra again you must not direct any letters / only were i tell you it is hard telling were i will bee by the time you get this but i think hear if i get no pull back i shall soon be well i shall stay hear until i get an answer to some of my letters wich i hope will be soon i sent you a letter yesterday and one to day i mean to send evry day until i get out of hear i sent pool a letter yesterday tell him to answer it as soon as he gets it for i donot know how long i will stay hear i sent a letter some time agoe to you with a rebble one dollar bill in it i wish you would tell me if you ever got it in your next i told you to tell your father to keep me a liver color dog but i suppoes he knowes best i would rather have one of that color than black but tell him to keep me one any how for i want / one tell me how my gun is wether it is rusted or if you have shot it off yet i expect you will go guning yet some time i hope you will have luck if you go their is nothing to write about only their was a young man died hear last night he had the bloody flux it is terible diseas bleed all the time and smell offly their is prayer meeting hear evry night the other night i went and was muched pleased with it i hope that the war will be over by winter i hear the rebs has partly sued for peace and that will send most of us home but i do not want to come home if the war stops so their is no fighting then the war is nothing and if one gets 18 dollars a month that is the wages that i get now it / is the best buisness i can go at now tell me how much state pay you have been drawen i wish to know how many months now good bye kiss that little boy i do not suppoes that you ever kiss him do you i do not but i will soon not over 2 years and six months yet

 

Good Bye now remember me in your prayers from one who loves the ground you tread on each day as i do

From Hank

 

Direct To Harry H Covert

Cavelry Corps Hospital

Near city point

Washington DC

 

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