Savannah, Georgia January 11, 1865
Dear Wife;
I am today in the city
of Savannah and the regiment is at Fort Thunderbolt about 6 miles off. I left them in the morning and go back
tonight. We are waiting to go on the
ship to North Carolina and probably to Charleston. We shall stop awhile at Hilton Head or Buford in South Carolina.
I
have not heard from you since December 4th but guess we will get a
mail when we get to Hilton Head in a few days.
I got a lot of _____ printed and sold enough to pay for the cost and
some more.
I
have got some bad ones and will send you one of them but don’t let the children
see it for it is not fit for anywhere but in the _____.
I
want to hear from you very much. G. E.
(George Edwin) and I are well and with the regiment as usual. I sent you a mat for the teapot when on an
oilcloth on the table. I sent it so as
to have it kept for a pattern and we can make them of rye straw and they make
baskets in the same way. I sent a lot
of things to you and I guess you have got them by this mail, you tell me all
you get.
We
cannot get much for a while. Perhaps
not till another is _______ but if there’s any chance we shall make’em
smoke. Send my j__islough if you have
not already and some Bisrocatie ____________________________
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