Baltimore April The 5^th 1865

 

My Dear Wife & Boy

               It is with the greatest pleasure that i am able to say that i am well & hope that you are the same i arived safe hear last night or yesterday about 4 P.M. very tired of riding i tell you i feel very lonley without you but i hope you & me will soon be united again as the war will soon be all over i think that i will never see another battle and i am sure that i do not want to see one evry body was glad to see me & it showed that i had still some friends left if it was / not for you & all the rest of my people i would like to stay hear but i want to get nearer my home so i can see you once & a while i got back just in time for i got paid to day but only two months the two that i was mustered for i have got more monney than i know what to do with & i dare not send any so soon after payday you see that letters is watched very close after payday & to morrow i will get more to morrow i will draw my ration monney $8.74 and then i will have more yet i want you to gether all my things together that is wat you can & keep good heart tell Mother & the rest that i will write to all of them / soon & your people to all i care about is they live so poor down here to day we had bean soup for dinner but i dare not eat it & it was so salt it would bear an egg and not a bean in it or at least in mine & Barclay P Bowl wat was he glad to see me you never saw the Beat & the cake & eggs tasted him so good that it done me good to look at him eat poor fellow he wants to get transfered to Newark so he can be with me he thinks a great deal of me & you to oh missey dont you i tell you i think more of you than ever since you told me you was going to be a better girl i tell you my dear Wife i think oftener & more of you than you think / & if you only thought as much of me i would be the happiest man that ever trod the soil of New Jersey now my Dear i expect to get a letter from you by the time that you get this if i do not i will be dissipointed i will have to draw to a close for i am tired been runing all day around the city to get my papers & now they are all right all but sining by Surg McGill the Surgon in charge now Barclay sends his love you & all our people tell them wat i write about him but you need not tell them all i expect you have begun to plow now as the farmers say you got your garden started pleas let me know as soon as you can i want to see you very bad i tell you you are as lonly as i am i expect now kiss the little boy for me and tell him about his pappy wen his little toung begins to prattle dear little boy good Bye my Dear Wife & Boy

 

            God Bless you Both

From you Know Who H H Covert

your loving Husband

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