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Little Rock Arkansas, Nov
25th, 1863
I received your kind
letter from you yesterday evening and certainly was vary
happy to hear from you. I received the letter soon after
McKinsey (?) started with the one I sent by him you will see
in the letter I sent by him that I expected one from you and
so I wasn’t disappointed. Mary, I am vary glad indeed you
write so often. I hope you will continue to do so I am
always glad to have a letter from one I love so well and I
have every reason to believe I am loved in return, it is a
great consolation to me while away down in Dixie to know
there is one that thinks of me and loves me . Well, we will
talk all of these things over when I get home, then we will
have some good old times won’t we. We have been getting
some timber this afternoon to raise our tent and we are
going to put a fire place in it and try and live as
comfortably as we can.
H. Case and
Jim
Barlow went to the city this afternoon and
S. Beal is on
guard so we couldn’t do anything at our tent and I thought
I would scribble a few lines to you . My --- is bad and
I am a little nervouse both makes a pretty bad thing I guess
you will have a worse time to read my letters than I do to
read yours. I can read yours first rate without any trouble
at all. I always could read your writing better than I
said I just done so for fun to please (?) you a little.
You can write better that I can that is, you are a better
speller and write proper and that is what I don’t do.
The musicians
got there brass(?) band today and they are tooting on some
now. I suppose we will have some musick with the 27th
now well I think it is time we had some don’t you?
We are going
to draw our cloths(?) this evening the teams are down.
----- them now ---------- . I think it is time and so does
every one else think so. --------- would for you to see the
woman bedding here they have everything you can mention,
they have ---- fire hot back (?) out of the oven apple dumplins sausage cooked, chicken, pigsfeet(?) and a little
of most everything and all warm. We can have a warm meal if
we was in we can buy pies 10 (cents) a piece or three for a
quarter and pretty good pies you know that is pretty
reasonable for the army but Dear Mary, they are not as good
pies as you used to bake or at least I don’t think they
are. I wish I had some of them good pies you used to make
in ---cow I think I could eat one or two of them without
much trouble.
Co. A haven’t
come yet we don’t keeps them so long. Joe ------ haven’t
come either. We are looking for them all the time. Some of
Co. F boys was drunk yesterday the Irish boys was the ones
Tom Burns got
put under guard in the evening and is under guard yet. He
lost all his money except what he spent and his watch .
Mike Hinchey lost a good revolver in this spree two, so
I think it wasn’t vary profitable business for them.
I thnk my cold
is getting better and I feel better than I did yesterday. I
guess I will be all right in a few days. Again, I hope you
are enjoying good health and may continue to enjoy it. I am
vary glad to hear that Mother was improving. I know
---------------- and kind to her and I am vary happy to
think so you are worth more than all things else on earth to
me and I love you more than anything else on earth and you
know I do don’t you Mary? Mary you get many compliments
from this regiment and it makes me feel proud to know I have
a wife that is so well spoken of where she has been. Well I
must close write often I send my love to Mother and Father
and the rest of them. I bid you good by for this time I
hope you may enjoy yourself from
J.O.
Burgess to Mary L. Burgess
I didn’t
comense to number my letters and I don’t know how many I
have written.
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