Camp 1^st N J Cavelry

Thursday December 29^th 1864

 

Dear Wife & Boy

Happy New Year

 

            How i would like to look at your sweet face to day if it rainy and snowy and cold i think their is a warm place in your hart that beats only for me if you only knew how often i thought of you going to bed alone with the boy i will be there some day then wont we have fine times by golly how we will dance the Bible tells us their is a time to dance and i think the time will be then i suppoes you have snow up to your place but we have none did pool go to newark i heard he had good skating i am glad of it i like to skate it is pretty work i have been drilling the men this forenoon and now i am doing something i like better i would like to see you so much to tell you the sights i have seen but one year is almost gone has not it passed away very quickly we will soon be in each others arms again / only two years more and all right but the war has evry apperance of coming to an end soon i for my part would be glad of it providing it comes in the right way how often i think of the good things at home and wish i could get just one meal but it would only spile me i would hate to come to army fare again i think by next fall i will be an officer then i can live good any way you see i have to go up by my own smartness i have no friends to give me a recomandation to the govener if i had a recomandation i would get it this winter some is officers that enlisted after i did just by they knowing some of the officers i am going to write you a very short letter this time my fingers is cold and i am getting out of wood and must go to the woods and get more you would be supprised to see wat a log i can carry i am getting to be a slasher i am fuller in the face than ever i was but slender in the body send that thimble soon i want it i wrote father a letter to day and hinted for him to come you must try and get him off / if you can he will be pleased i know we have a band and it plays twice a day any how and generly at nights espacialy on Gala days i expect the girls both went with pool to Newark i would like to take you to some place of amusement but i think it would be to the theater you would be pleased to go once and the museum would pleas you i am sure to see so many animals all stuft i shall have to close by telling you that you must grow fat like me so wen i come home why i have not got a sickly wife i am affraid you worrie i hear you do why if you was hear you yourself would not be affraid to go in a battle field you would not think of it all you would be affraid would be to see a little blood now do not my dear wife worrie yourself sick for the good Lord doeth all things well i am going to stop all the time but i cannot hardly i know you think of me very much but you must remember you have a sacred charge in our little boy / you must teach him to lisp the name of his savior as soon as he can talk the poor little lamb i would more than like to see him i am glad he walks if you think i send you to many letters

why tell me good Bye

My Dear Wife

 

From your truant

Husband

Sargt H H Covert

 

Sargent H H Covert

C^om G 1^st N J

Cavelry

Washington

DC

 

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the within card

was given to me by a man who

used to be sargent he was broken

for writing to the Presidend asking

            for a furlough to see his wife

she lives in trenton

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