Fairfax Seminary  Hospital
	Dec 18th 1863

Dear Mother I take my pen
in hand to inform you of the
present state of my health
it is good at present perhaps you
have got the letter that I wrote
you from here telling you 
of the slight wound I got on
the 25 of last month it is
doing fine at this time so that
the doctor says that I can get
a furlough for thirty days
so if I can get some pay I shall
come home to stay some time
with you I could come home
withou any money but I 
don’t want to for I want to 
get you some things for your
comfort if I could get the
4 months pay that is due to me

It would help you some
I got a letter from you this
morning from the regt dated
the 29th of last month and
one from Mary I was glad to
hear from you so I thought
I would tell you that you
need not send those shirts
for I have got plenty now I have
got 4 or five so you see I don’t
need them at present tho most
of my Company have enlisted
again but they don’t get me
I tell you for I aught to
be at home to take care of
 you need not fear for
that I am as anxious to get
home as you are to have me I
can tell you that [illegible] as ther
is so much [illegible] on I cant
write very well with this poor
pen so I will send you some

That I wrote the other
day as paper is cheap it
will save me writing some
thing over again perhaps you
will think it a strange
letters from me but I am to lazy
to write anymore at present
this from your son
A H Marsh

Direct to
Fairfax Seminary Hospital

Ward (G?) Alexandria