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Wednesday Sep 7^th/64

 

Dear Wife

                        i have not had a letter from you yet but i will not give you up not i you must send my letters to the rejiment last night i got three from dismounted camp one from Sister Molly and one from sister Sally but none from you i was very poorly in dismounted camp i come out hear and got some corn and beans some thing that i could eat and was all right for a wile but for the last three days i have been very bad and i am afraid i will never be much better in the service i shall try to stick it out as long as posible i got a shirt from you and a bundle of envalopes from Sallie tell pool if he enlists to come to this rejiment he can enlist in this rejiment for one year as well as any wear elce but he will not like it i know i would like to hear from you about how your getting along / in money matters i am getting uneasy about you i think you must be without money how is it i get worried very easy now i am sick you must write to me do not wait evry time for an answer for i am weak and sick and do not feel able to write now i might better be in the bed if i had one i cannot carry ten quarts of oats for my horse to eat do tell me how you are getting along i drew one of the prettiest horses you ever saw and some of the infantry stole it from me and i have never seen it since i do not think i will have to pay for him i hope not i will steal one first i have got a good one now a sorrel but he is not half the horse the other was and i do not think i will want one long wat do i like my shirt now send me a letter i am afraid i have spent to much monney but if i had not i would now be dead for i could not eat wat we drew i am going to try and make me some soup i shall want you to send me some things this winter if i get well and a cook book / so i can cook for my self i cant think how to do it i expect by the time we get home i will be able to cook as good as you i shall not write you a long letter to day i feel to bad tell father that i would give a five dollar note to be in his orchard and cider two days tell my father that i got his letter and i think i have answered it if i do not set evry thing down i forget i cant remember nothing i shall write to all as often as i can but wen i get a sheet of paper to write i do not know wich to write to i stood a good wile to see wether i would send this to you or sallie but you had the oldest right their has been very hard fighting hear this morning but the rebs had to give it up i feel tell the squire like a war horse wen they begin to fight i aint sick then but many well ones is they get tell him wat we boys call the Minney feaver that is they dare not face the musick you can see them all / over through the woods laying around nothing the matter but the minney feaver thank God it never troubled me yet why missy befor i would run or sneak out i would die i am very proud worse than i was at home now write soon and send to the rejiment i am waiting for them picturs very paitunly i am tired do not think any the less of me for not filling this sheet i will write as often as i can i sent Mary an answer to hers with this from you ever loving and ever true

Husband          Henry H Covert

C^om I First NJ

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