Douglas Hospital
		Washington D.C.
			August 22nd /6[4?]

	Dear Mother
		          I at this mom
ent recd your letter of the
[18th?] and from it I infer
that you have not recd my
letter of the [6th?] of July
[illegible in original] as if you did you delay-
ed answering it a good while
there are a good many
of my correspondents who
are rather anxious slack
about answering my letters
lately Frank among the No
I have not heard from
him at all since I last
wrote on the 8th July. [I do?]
not see why he does not [write?]

			answer letters
I am always prompt and
I [illegible in original] like others to be the
same
	I recd a letter from
Fred a few days since he
was well when he wrote
I do not know why he does
not write to you he is not
very fond of writing letters
anyhow I wrote those to
him before I got one in 
return
    As I said in my last
letter I shall get home
 if I can but I shall not
[last?] long in Fentonville
[as?] I have promised to go to
Liberty & Jackson
   The weather for the past
week has been quite wet
it has rained every day

	my leg is improving
slowly yet but I am not
allowed to go on crutches
yet I hope to soon though
it is dressed with [lint?]
and bandages now and I
can get about the room
some I do not think I
shall ever go to the
Regt again as my wound
will unfit me for service
in the field again hoping 
to hear from you soon I 
renane your affectionate son
	Augustus B Holmes

	Mrs H J Holmes
	Fentonville  Mich