#76



		Indianapolis, Soldiers Home
		    March 5th, 1865.
Dear
    Wife we are on our way at last to go to
Savannah Ga to Join our Regiment we Started
from Murfreesboro March 2d  it was quite
warm there people had begun to plough up
and make garden and here in Indiana
there is snow on the gound and the ground
is froze some I think it must be very cold
where you are but you are very fond of Cold
weather. if it was not for your love of a
cold country I never should live there any 
more. I should Sell out and move South
to a warmer climate. I am as well as ever
and enjoy myself as well as anybody only I
should like to see my family very much.
we expect to start from here at one Oclock this
afternoon for Pittsburgh in pennsylvania
and from there to New York City and then take
a boat for Savannah I think we will have
a very pleasant trip it is rather cold to be
comfortable but I guess we can stand it
well enough I have given up coming home
this spring I hope God will watch over you
in my absence dont worry yourself to death

about me but put your trust in God, ask him
to watch over me and ask in faith and it
will all go well with me. God has protected
me so far in answer to your prayers and
I believe he will continue to keep his arms
over me and he has protected my wife and
little ones and saved them for me while
death has been all around them and almost
in their very doors this has been in answer
to my [prays?] and I still have faith to believe
that I shall be permitted to enjoy the society
of my friends after the war is over and
the country is at peace again you must
excuse the hastiness of this short letter for
there is about five hundred men in this
room and not much of a chance to write  .
William says you are getting Grey now I
know what makes you get grey it is fretting
So much you must Stop it and put more con-
fidence in your prayers. I must bring my
letter to a close and bid you good bye for a
short time and may God bless my darlings
is my prayer  I received your letter stating
that Samantha was dead. O how sorry I am
I can not be there to comfort you in your
Sorrow but so it is and so it must remain.

		Mar. 5, 1865.


Is babe as Roguish as ever and does Arden
learn Geograph very fast I want the children
to have a good Education at all events for I see
the need of it in Every days experience a man
with an Education can get along well Enough
while the man without has to do the drugery
Good bye from your husband
				S A Howe