Tuesday July the 26 1864

Cavelry Corps Hospital Ward 8^th

 

My Dear Wife

            To day i thought i would write you another letter and use my last stamp in telling you how i am and giving you something to do that is reading and answering it i suppoes that you get so many that you get tired of reading them but just read this one it is worth your while i should very much like to get a letter from you as i have had none since i have been sick i have not had an answer to any of my letters that i have writen since i have been in the hospital i should like so much to hear from thee my Dear you little know how i long to get a good letter from you i have sent six since i have receivd one yesterday i sent one to mother to morrow i shall send to wallace i sent your father one but for want of a stamp i put on it soldiers letter i do not know wether / he ever receivd it or not i hope by this time he has though i sent severel letters to you without stamps just tell if you ever got them i have sent Henry J Smith two letters and receivd no answer i sent Charlie Sonberger one and receivd no answer yet but their is plenty of time yet you spoke of taking Minner to the Doctors you better cut his little neck than give him medicin he will never get stronger if you give him medicin let him alone and he will get smart enuf quite by the time he gets age do not try to kill the little fellow as soon as i quit taking medicin i got better i am well of the diseas but so very weak i could not walk a mile no how i am as thin as a skeleton only a shaddow of my former self you would hardly know me i feel very lonesom if i had not plenty of good reading i know not wat i should do and thinking of you ocupies most of my time i have plenty to eat hear / evrything but butter that is scarce i have got monney but no chance to buy the dollar you sent done me a great deal of good but you ought to have kept it you may need it befor you get more tell me how much monney you want and i will send it to you wen i get paid wich will be soon you need not think that i will not ask sulphen for that monney i can tell you but i guess i wont get it he is borring of evry body wat he can i guess it will take all his pay to pay wat he has borrowed i tell you i do not borrow much all i have borrowed is $1.70^cts that is easely paid but i should think that 40 or 50 dollars was not so easely paid i have to go now good bye do not send any more letters until you hear from me their is quear work hear i will tell you in my next

Henry H Covert

 

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you must take the paper to the Esquire he will tell you wat to do with it you can draw a months pay on the day i have ben in the service a month

six dollars

H Covert

 

My dear wife do not let any one see this letter keep it under lock and key and tell as much of it as you pleas no more but still you ever loving Husband

Henry H Covert

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