Camp 1^st J Cav

Fryday Oct 7^th 1864

 

Dear Wife

            i receivd a letter from you on the 4 i belive and have not yet had time to answer it i am very well and hope this will find you the same all i worrie about now is you picture i am affraid i will not get it but i will live in hopes if i die in despair the wind blows so it shakes the paper and my hand is not steady either but i expect you can make it out you by this time i hope have got the monney i sent you you must examin the monney closley for some of it draws interest i have got one of them now i want to send it to you but not yet you must look out now the notes are 10$ ones and says on them / in Gilt Letters Coumpound Interest and on the backs they read at wat time the interest is due and wat it is worth at the expiration of three years if you get any of them keep them by you they draw interest in your pocket and spend the monney of the old issue that twenty you have got get two tens like i told you and the time you have had them as long as you have that they will be worth 60 cents more so you see it payes and you have your monney while if you put it out you cannot get it wen you want it now you can have it and draw the interest your self aint that the rind now missey i want you to write as often as you can i write wenever i get a chance the other day i wrote one with a pencil on a bordd in the rain and expected to be attacted evry minnet we have had a pretty / hard time of it for 7 or 8 dayes very fighting or picket the medicin you sent is right but you must not go to the doctors for it he charges to much 50 cents per drachm is one hundred and twenty four dollars a pound that wont do you can get it at John P. Sydams at 80 cents per ounce perhaps he will charge a little more now but not much i have enuf to last me quite a wile now i see by your letter your very uneasy about my monney advise me as i want so many things i had better send it home i hope by the time you get this you will have the $130.00^cents i sent you and i would like to have them shirts as soon as you can get them made and make them as i told you with one broad pleat in the center and do not pleat the bosoms but put a plain one of / an other color that is on the red shirt put a blue pice for a bosom and a broad red strip for the buttons and sow the buttons on good and send them soon as you can or one of them at least you would not belive how warm i am get i am warmer than ever i can lay on the ground all night and not get cold while all the rest of the boys are shivring and they have all got overcoats and i have none since i gave it to abe S wen he was wounded i got a letter from mother this morning and one from Kate Silcox she says she is coming to spend election day with you i wish i was but i will some time i got som paper but no envalopes about the gun let him have it i do not mean you to give it to him but lend it once and a while he has got one gun but some times he will want mine perhaps you need not tell evry boddy that he has got it i should think you could keep from lending it to evry one now good bye i would walk a good way to see you this morning my little wife and her boy i have got the pictur of him yet shall keep it untill i get a better

H H Covert

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