Baltimore May 6^th/65

 

Dear Wife

            I receivd your very welcomb letter yesterday and i thought that i would not answer it until to day for i am looking for my discharge evry day and thought that i would come home and suprise you but you see i have to write yet once but by the time you get this i hope to be near you if i do not get transfered but i expect my transfer evry day i have been examine for it and i am afraid it will come befor i get discharged look out som any how for i am coming home you may be so good as to wait a little longer you say they have got the small pox up your way and you are affraid of that why hear we have it in the same room and never think of it but we are hardned to evry thing i am glad the girls is so kind to come with you evry night well i will be home in two weeks at the longest and then you will see that evry thing is for the best you being a christian ought / to know that if i get home i shall not blame any one for taking my discharge for wen you hear people telling about not taking their discharge you just say to your self they have not got a chance for their is not a man in the army so that will not take his discharge and more over they do not ask you if you want your discharge but give it to you and you can take it or not you are turned out of the Hospital and your pay stopt so if you wont take your papers it is no buissness of the officers and as for the theater i have been out once since i was hear it is no pleasur for me to go to the theater and the man i went to see was Edward Davison & my friends is few only Wm Davison & wife she does not do any thing she boards at N^o 98 Garden Street i have just heard that the soldiers would all be sent to their own state to be mustered out of the service wich will be next week i belive now my wife i want to know who that fellow was that said that was a great way to get married and leave you hear i want to know his name and the / next letter you send pleas send his name if you pleas and as for my office i gave it up i did not like to work wen i got as much pay for doing nothing i am glad you dream of me nights i dream of you now tell me wat your dreams is and i shall tell you mine i will put mine on a pice of paper and you can burn it when you get it i told you i had been doing nothing but i have been puting your name on a cent and tell me if you like them wen you get them wallac has not writen yet and I am afraid she will not until I do I do not go out nights or day it makes my wound worce and it is bad enuf now it is worce than wen I left I do not get as good living as I did at home I think you got your garden dug cheap very cheap I am glad to hear you are all right see you keep so for I love you to well to lose you my Dear Good Wife Kiss / and now I have answered all your questions i do not know what to write about only i get very few letters since i came back but the reason of that I do not write them i have writen no letters to any one but you except father & mother now my Dear Wife you must not give your self for you know I think of know one but you and I done evry thing for the best I thought when I moved you their i would soon be with you and now i will in less than a month why do you think so much of me now i am nothing but a cripple I am not a supple good looking young man like i used to be and perhaps never will be again but I live in hopes if i die in despair now i want you to get as fat as you can for i weigh 162 lbs pretty hevy for a little wife look out and i cannot bear the sight of any other woman but you and i dream i am sleeping with you evry night i think our souls must go out to each other and meet each other half way you must give my best wishes to all your people and tell them all to write as soon as they can for i would like to get a letter evry day if i could i shall write a good many letters to you if they do not give me my discharge wat do you do with them i forgot to ask you

 

good By my Dear Dear Wife kiss the little boy for me

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