Baltimore May 14^th 1865

 

Dear Wife

                        It is with the greatest pleasur that i answer your very welcomb letter & wen you get this you may soon look for me for i am coming home in a few days i could be with you befor this letter but i have to wait for my discharge all the Jersey troops has been discharged but me i am on the Pension List & will not take my discharge only with a Pension it will not be much but some 3 or 5 dollars a month better than nothing and now i am in the office making out the rolls and discharges we have mustered out / Discharged some 60 or 70 allready and soon hope to finish by wendnesday i think we will be through i expect i will have to try and get an office in some place or other & move their for i cannot work at my buisness again very soon the doctor thought that i would be well by six years any way i thanked him for the news and told him i was very glad he gave me some good advice to was he not kind poor fellow i will tell you all wen i come home wich will be by next Sunday if my discharge comes if it comes to morrow i will have to stay hear and help them a few days so you need not look until you see me coming i send you this time a pictur of this hospital but not the part i am in i am on the north side of the street and this is a pictur of the south side now missey you must forgive me for i cannot find much to write about only my discharge i will be very glad wen i get it if i am lame but i am better than / i was wen i left my wound has not healed yet but their is plenty of time yet it is strong and i can begin to run on it again by hoping evry other step i am learning all i can now and writing so i can get a clerkship in some place or other when i am free may be the Esq will have som thing for me to do i can keep shop any way and if i can do nothing better i can set up shop and hire the work done any way but begorry i am to lazy to do any thing but write and most to lazy for that and now my Dear i am very much pleased to think that you have not forgotten the good things of earth begorry what fine times we will yet have wen Harry comes home from the war i do not know what to bring you from hear wat would you like i hardly know wether to tell you to answer this or not for i expect to get home soon and may be I would not get the letter if you write it / now wife evry body is at work but me and i think i will not write you a very long letter but will come home nearly as quick as you get this and then you can tell me all about it they are talking now about my not going to work som New York boys they want to get their monney and then they will be for leaving us in the lurch i guess but i will not leave the boys in the lurch they have done all they can do for me & they are all discharged but three of us and we are doing our best to get them all home as soon as possible now my good wife give my best wishes i sent you a paper with Booth in and this morning they have got Jeff Davis and all his suit now i hope they will hang him and then i guess that the war will be over befor another week their is not a place they hold now and by the time i get home i sent your father a letter i am glad you are going to get a new bonnet and i think you will have to get severl new things wen i come i have a notion of getting a good suit hear while i have got the monney but i shall think about it good By my Dear excues poor writing this time for i think i need it Henry H Covert   Kiss

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