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		Bridgeport, Ala. Mar. 27th / 64.
Dear wife. we are here yet and all right I got a letter
from you yesterday mailed the 18th of March
I get your letters regular every week and am
sorry you have not got mine as regular as I
have written and sent them regular every week
                                         the
Your last said you had got ^ ten dollars more
from me which makes $25 in all before this
gets there you will get $5 more which will make
$30 which is all I have sent yet well we have
had some cold winter here lately on the
morning of the 22d of March we got up and
found the ground covered with a mantle of
snow about 4 inches deep as pure and
white as if the country had not ever been
deluged in blood. well the snow kept
falling untill it measured fifteen inches
in depth and continued to snow but
melted nearly as fast as it came well
the ground was covered three days but
now it is all gone and it is very pleasant
and warm again  we had preaching in
camp to day it seems as if we was in
a land of peace to hear the gospel
preached I dont think they ever had
the true gospel untill our armies came here
Well I think this revolution will be the
cause of the spread of the gospel and
freedom all over this land I sold Bassett
my half of the old fanning mill for the
use of his horse for one colt but you
will find in the little account Book
that there is something comeing to
you besides I expected to have the use
of his horse for another colt this next
summer if he had not sold him but
it will all come right when I come
home again he is paid for this colt
anyway as for getting drunk in 
the army there is not one half the
chance there is at home as to that
extra bounty if it is our due we
shall get it because the officers dare
not withhold it but I think we
shall not get it we enlisted a little
too soon it did not become a law
untill the 3d day of Nov last which
would throw us out of it but I
hope it will be paid to us all
Our company is scattered now from
here to tullahome building Block houses
I have not seen John for most two weeks

		Mar. 27th / 64


I am as well as usual I dont think of but little
to write this time I have been a little sick for
about ten days but feel all right again now, was
sorry to hear that Aiden had lost his ring will
try and make him another as soon as I can
I should like much to be with you all again
but that cannot be at present I feel that we
shall meet again on this earth for that is 
my prayer and also the prayer of my loved
ones at home and I believe the lord will hear
and grant the same I cannot dout it in the
least I almost know we shall see each other
again this side the grave. write to Captain
Duryea mustering Officer in Detroit and ask
him to send you a certificate of my muster
tell him I was mustered Oct. 23d, 1863 and
was forward to Reg Oct 24th 1863 tell him
I was enrolled for draft in the sixth
Congressional District that I am 34 years
old March 8th 1864 consequently was but 33
years old when enlisted but find a mistake
on the muster rolls of Company ask him
to find my enlistment papers which will
make it all plain. I cant think of any
more to write so I must close by saying
God bless and protect you kiss the children


for me and I I will remember you all in 
my prayers. from your ever loving
      Husband   Simeon A Howe
to his wife C E P H.