U. S. Sanitary Commission.

Cavelry Corps Hospital

Friday July the 22^nd 1864

 

My Dear Dear Wife

            i feel able as long as i am alive to let you know were i am i am still on my back but hope for the better i am very weak and so poor you would not know me i have to rest evry few words that i write i will not weigh 20 lbs i used to lauf at you but your turn has come now my rings will not stay on my fingers hardly i get good care hear the comishion wat you see this paper headed with gives you evry thing you want wat will do you good i have got the dirreaher most terible have to run evry few minnets i have not had a letter from you or any one elce since befor the 4^th i should like to hear from home once again if i never see it i suppoes that their is letters to the rejiment but i never see any body from / their the skin is all pealing off my hands my back is so tired all the time i can sit up but very little i am so weak so very weak i cannot bear the weight of my clothes on me nothing but shirt and drawers i cannot think of any thing to write only their is a laidy or two hear they come through the ward to look at us evry day we get a sheet of paper and and envalop evry day if you will send me a stamp or two i will try and send you all the letters i can this hospital is at City point or near their i get nothing to eat but tea and tost that is enuf i did not eat any thing for a weak the doctor is going around now he goes evry day in the forenoon if you still love such a poor skeliton of a man as i am i wish you would answer me a letter i would like to hear from home i sent you a letter Monday but we men are such impation creturs that we cannot wait like our pretty wifes good bye my best beloved / kiss the little boy and remember his sick father in your prayers you must tell mother to write to me tell her were to direct her letters to

 

Mr Henry. H. Covert

 

Cavelry Corps

Hospital

Ward 8^th

Washington

DC /

 

            if father has not yet sent

            my shoes tell him to await

            father ordors H H Covert

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