Good Bye My Dear

Batlimore April 9^th/65

 

My Dear Wife & boy

                                    How i long to see you you cannot tell but i am doomed to dissipointment for i am affraid it will be a long time befor i can see you i have not had any news from Newark yet but live in hopes i could stay thear my time out if i liked for they have got me in as master of the third floor i do not like it but have to take up with it it will do very well for some body that is affraid to fight but my Dear i have no fear my leg is just as it was wen you saw it my Dieraher is gone & i have good helth but i am just as lame as i was when i left & i want to hear from you so bad i can hardly wate but so goes the world if i only had you in my arms oh my how happy i would be / but my Dear the time is drawing along & i will soon be home if i do not die in these two years how i think of you i have plenty of company but it is not like you you know that i suppoes you feel very lonely nights but cheer up we will be still happy we are happy knowing that we love one another and try and bring up our boy so he will be a blessing to us in after years how often i think of you both nights my Dear wife do write to me i have been hear a week and get no letters yet why did you not write you knew wher i was you should not wait for a letter but evry body waits for a letter i should get very few if i did not send one evry time i wanted to hear from home last wednesday night we had an illumination evry window had a light in even evry pane of glass it was the most butifull sight i ever saw / i can get a pass evry other night & evry night if i wanted it i guess but i want it not unless you lived hear i wish you did so i could have a girl wen i did go out but i want none i keep thinking of you untill i think you are with me some times you never saw such day dreaming as i have sometimes got but it is awlways about you you now my Dear missy must not get any more such spells i think of it 50 times a day & it still makes me feel very bad but i will forget all if you will promis to be a good girl until i get back then we will be so happy you and me and the boy with his pretty little eye poor little boy with no one to plague him i wonder if he thinks of me i guess he is to small to ever think of his dad but wen i come / home wont we go fishing us three say missey how is that i guess so their has a great many died since i came home and some is very sick yet to day i saw a great many prisners to day all rebs their is a great many simpathisers for them hear but they dare not say any thing now missey i will send you a compound interest note worth $20.00 August 15^th is the date & the number 21254 you see i took the number so if it got stolen i could get it you had better take the number and date down & keep it some where you had better keep the note until we have to use it for it will draw interest in your pocket now good By my Dear Wife give my best wishes to all i will write to all soon i am very restless and i see my old Major is killed write to me and let me know if any of the boys was hit for we get no York papers i send father two baltimore papers good By

 

from Harry H Covert pleas write my name Harry

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