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Frank Malcom letters, 1865
1865-06-14 Page 02
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it you have my concent, I want you to enjoy yourself as well as you can during my absence. but I hope that will not be long for I stil believe we will be discharged before the End of Summer. I Send you this letter by Henry. C. Steel" our Hospital Steward he resides in "West Point" and goes home for thirty days - I have the promise of a furlough when he returnes and if their is no Show to be mustered out I will make the application and if it is approved I will be at home about the 1st.. of August, I am much obliged to Capt" Hancock for the offer he has made me had been thinking that I would like a Situation of that Kinde and Should the place be vacant when I get out of the Service think I will accept of it. you ask me to not resort to any trickery to get out of the Service you can rest assured "my dear" that I will not. you Say that you was very much mortified Soon after I Left Home. I regret very much that anything of that Kinde Should occur, but presume it was caused by some of my "good friends" in "Ft M," for I assure you that "I' have never Knowingly done anything
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it you have my concent, I want you to enjoy yourself as well as you can during my absence. but I hope that will not be long for I stil believe we will be discharged before the End of Summer. I Send you this letter by Henry. C. Steel" our Hospital Steward he resides in "West Point" and goes home for thirty days - I have the promise of a furlough when he returnes and if their is no Show to be mustered out I will make the application and if it is approved I will be at home about the 1st.. of August, I am much obliged to Capt" Hancock for the offer he has made me had been thinking that I would like a Situation of that Kinde and Should the place be vacant when I get out of the Service think I will accept of it. you ask me to not resort to any trickery to get out of the Service you can rest assured "my dear" that I will not. you Say that you was very much mortified Soon after I Left Home. I regret very much that anything of that Kinde Should occur, but presume it was caused by some of my "good friends" in "Ft M," for I assure you that "I' have never Knowingly done anything
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