Head Quarters Cavelry Camp

August 27^th

 

            My Dear Wife

                                    i receivd a very welcomb letter from you on the same day i receivd many others and it pleased me much to see you trying to get things for my comfort such as shirts and so forth i have not got my shirts yet but suppoes that they are to the rejiment or at least one of them i shall get them all in good time i look very much for that picture of you and the boy i expect that will be worth somthing not like the one that poor fellow at princton he ought to stop poor devil he will never make the horse go i am affraid but he tries hard enuf and things enuf he is at most all kinds of buisness he will some time be a man perhaps i have just wile pening this letter receivd one from Joe Smith he is well and doing it fine i hope to see him soon if i keep getting as strong as i now am i am doing very well now and hope to i have give up my buisness and am doing nothing but getting / better i would like to go with you to Brunswick but i cannot yet but some i will then wont we cut a swell i bet i have not heard in so long from som of my friends that i think they have forgotten me you said George and Mary would laugh at me or at least i would lauf at them i guess not i wish i could get somthing to make me lauf and a soldier i guess never laufs at a letter from home if he could not read it in a year i never lauf at Gardners writing and i can never make it out and i am sure that i could make out all wat they said how i would like to eat some of fathers peaches we cannot get any hear not one i have not seen one but i have seen severl that had peaches you can get 10 for 23 cents about as big as a pipe bowl evry thing is so big hear that it scares us or at me at least the tent is so full now that i cannot write it is the first time that they bother me in my life they are taking down the names of the men and their post office address how i would like to get some of them peaches of fathers i am glad to hear he liked my letter tell him i shall write to him as often as i can / i always think of him tell him i have never forgotten him nor never will and if it is true about becks man leving her he ought to have his throught cut going off and leaving her she is a great deal to good for him and used him to good its a pity he has not enlisted it will be a good lesson for him he will get his fill if he goes in the infantry wich he will tell your father to get my dog do not let him cheat me out of my dog by his running off if he has run off he is not worth as much as the dog is i think a great deal of my dog and gun and wagon so wen i come home if i ever do i will have them and i hope sometime to get their i am very sorrie that you show my letters to evry body that comes i would not do that with yours i am sure you must not lend any of my things gun or dog if you have to keep him put up plenty of fruit and evry thing so you will have it if i come home this winter but i think you will not see me till my time is out i shall send some things home with Huskey if i can such as mementoes of the diferent battles bullets picked up off of the battle fields / the dinner call has just blowed and i will have to close this with hope soon to get answer from you you must fix them shirts or one of them so i can wear collar with it i would like to see you i dreamed of you last night i will write to you often if i get better i shall mail a letter to father to day tell your father that he must look soon for a letter from his son in law evry thing goes fine hear no news but fighting evry night and evry day as usel i shall look with all eyes to see the photographs i wish i had plenty of them to look at they look good to see faces that i know now good bye i can think if no more than i feel better than i have since June that is a good bit now remember me in your prayers

 

Your Dear Husband Henry H Covert

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Henry H. Covert

Dismounted Camp

Near City Point

In care of William H. Allen

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