Camp Minty April 19th /63
Dear Lucy
	     once more I take
my pen to write you a few
lines I dont like to write
letters very well I guess you
know that by this time
thare is no news here to write
it is Sunday & I have just
come in of picket which
makes me three nights on
guard within one week I can
stand that onley let me rest
half the time we have got
so that we have got so that we
are [illegible in original] go on picket as to do
any other duty we go out in
sight of the Reble pickets the
infantry are on the inside of our
line cavalry have to take the front
I received a letter from you
yesterday Heart & all it did not take


me long to read it was just
about the right length. you spoke
of Angle coming Home & wanted
me to hep him if I could
I would help him if I could 
for he is one of the best
Friends I have got. I dont know
as I can help him at all
it is just as the Surgeon says
about his going Home I think
he will get Home before long
the Hospital whare he is is a very
nice place & the scick are well
taken care of Liman Turner is
in the same hospital and will
take care of him if he needs
		     know
help you wanted to ^ how James
Delaforce gets along he dont live
at my house I guess he is all
right he is fat & his clothes
dont looke any of the best
Buglers dont amount to much in
this regiment. Thayer is all right
he's all on the up up & we are all right

them stockings you sent me are all
right I shall think of the one
that knit them often may her
life be long & plesent
Lucy you say you had a chance to
[step?] of this winter may be you
[mis?] it in letting such a chance
slip I tell you the chances for
my comeing home looks rather
dark you will of course act for
your own intrest 3 years look
like a good while to wate. one
anything that looks so uncertain
as my ever returning home
you may think I am home scick
I am not. all I want is for
you to act for your own best
intrest. you are free to do
as you like of course, all I 
want is for you to act for
your own best intrest
I hope you will read these
few lines in the same spirit
which they ware writen I dont know

[Written on right hand side of Scan 3]

but I wrote a few lines on this subject in my other letter perhaps it will do no hurt if

[Written on top of Scan 3]

I did


the prospect for the war closing
I dont think is very good things
	          more
looked a little ^ promising a month
ago than they do now we live in
hopes of better times coming
time only can tell what is
in Store for us & I will
try and be content with
my lot
I beleive I have writen all
I can think of we have
orders for a six days scout
we start this afternoon at at 1 oclock
		Othniel