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Andrew F. Davis papers, May-December 1861
07_1861-05-20-Page 01
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Camp Wayne May 21/61 Mrs Sarah Davis Dear dear wife I received your kind letter of the 21 inst today and was happy indeed to hear from you but it was with a bleeding heart that I read of your suffering but after you get over the fatigue of your journey I hope you will be better. I am still well and hearty and in as good spirits as could be expected, being parted from the dearest ones that I have on Earth but I hope to meet you again when the Seperation will only make our meeting doubly dear. Kiss the children for me and tell them their father often thinks of them with an aching heart and deplores the fates that makes their father think it his duty to leave them for a season. I hear from Mother 2 or 3 times each week She is well. I have not heard from Nancy since you left Newton is Still attending to the Express for Mr Dunbar. Do not make yourself uneasy about our things as Mother will stay there for some time yet and it will be time enough to attend to them when we know whether we will need them this summer or not. We may be sent home in 2 or 3 months and we may be kept on duty steady for 12 months. Henry Husted is P. M. at Liberty at last. It is reported that A C. White is $200.00 defaulter. We are liveing at the top of the pot now as the saying is as the Liberty folks Sent us a waggon load of the good things of the land yesterday. Such as Roast Chicken Pies Caks Butter Pickels &c And Wm Loflon was here today and made us a present of a Cheese which weighed 75 lbs. which with our regular rations that we draw you may be
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Camp Wayne May 21/61 Mrs Sarah Davis Dear dear wife I received your kind letter of the 21 inst today and was happy indeed to hear from you but it was with a bleeding heart that I read of your suffering but after you get over the fatigue of your journey I hope you will be better. I am still well and hearty and in as good spirits as could be expected, being parted from the dearest ones that I have on Earth but I hope to meet you again when the Seperation will only make our meeting doubly dear. Kiss the children for me and tell them their father often thinks of them with an aching heart and deplores the fates that makes their father think it his duty to leave them for a season. I hear from Mother 2 or 3 times each week She is well. I have not heard from Nancy since you left Newton is Still attending to the Express for Mr Dunbar. Do not make yourself uneasy about our things as Mother will stay there for some time yet and it will be time enough to attend to them when we know whether we will need them this summer or not. We may be sent home in 2 or 3 months and we may be kept on duty steady for 12 months. Henry Husted is P. M. at Liberty at last. It is reported that A C. White is $200.00 defaulter. We are liveing at the top of the pot now as the saying is as the Liberty folks Sent us a waggon load of the good things of the land yesterday. Such as Roast Chicken Pies Caks Butter Pickels &c And Wm Loflon was here today and made us a present of a Cheese which weighed 75 lbs. which with our regular rations that we draw you may be
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