Sunday April the 3 1864 near warrenton

 

My Dear Wife

                        it is with the greatest pleasure that i a gain come within speking distance of you again i have had no letter from you in some days but i expect one to day but i as i never let a sunday go by without speaking to you that is through a letter but is it not a great thing for to have some one to send your love epistil to but i must tell you the news that is nothing hear nothing new but it rains evry day it snowes every other day and blowes the rest of the time mud up as high as your legs comes never saw as much mud in all my life but if it is mudy at your place you never saw mud wen i go from my tent to my horse i go in mud half way up to my boot tops and that is pretty well up boots is very high i do not think that i will part with my boots but as for my gloves they are worn out pretty much they went to pices / and i had not used them much i saw a nice pair at the city the other day but i thought that i would not buy them for the want of money i thought that my wife and child wanted it worse than i did the gloves i think that if i ever come back that i shall bring you out hear and perhaps i shall move you out it is a fine place or has been once but it will improve if the war should end i was at the city the other day and sold some pork we would not eat it and we send it to town or take it and get ten cents a pound for it and take it out in tobaco we was at the soldiers burying ground we saw over a thousand graves of all kinds rebbel and union side by side the most of them was rebs killed at the last battle of Manasses some few was our soldiers that has died this winter some has died since i came i have had another letter from Hooker / and i sent one to our father that is both yours and mine the stamps and paper that you sent me came very handy i have use most of it up that is not all of it i lent some out but i borred it befor to send my love to you you must rite as often as you can twice in a week anyhow i sent your watch do let me know wether you receivd it or not i expect that i shall receiv a word from you in about an hour as soon as the mail comes in i shall have to quit now and go to tend my horse the bughel calls us out evry time that we have to go out as soon as it blowes their is a great many calls but i do not care but Billy growls like a dog with a sore head all the time i wish i had went in the artilary then i should not been with the quarlssom fellow he makes me mad but i say nothing i do not quarl unless some one provokes me beyon endurance abe Stryker is all right but abe Sutphan is all the time talking about going to the dismounted camp if silcox has not settled that account of mine you must go and get it and settle it yourself it is time it is done the first of april is at hand and i want my debts paid you can do it it is only nine dollars that i owe him you can do it if you cant send me word and i will find some one to do it i do not want my name for a bye word i will send another soon good bye

 

your own love Hank   H H Covert

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