Harpers Ferry, Oct. 5th,

Dear loving wife,

Sunday finds me again writing you a few lines, this time with pen and ink for we have stopped two days in this place and got our things all together. I am writing on the desk you gave me, which I would not part with for gold.

Every day I find some evidence of your thoughtfulness and it makes the tears come in my eyes when I think how much you sacrifice for my comfort; you speak of being a better wife, if I ever come back again I hope I shall be more worthy of you and may we both learn to submit to the decrees of providence without complaint. I am

Mount Carmel, Sabbath Morn, October 5th ‘62

Ever dear husband,

This is a beautiful Sabbath morning. Everything looks so beautiful, quiet, and peaceful that I can hardly realize that our country is engaged in such a cruel war and that my husband has got to take part in such bloody business. What should we have said a few years ago, if we had have known that we should ever come to this.

I received your letter last night written Wednesday night, and it grieved me sorely to learn that [you] hadn’t received my letter; and yours showed such a general tone of disappointment and feeling that I was neglecting you that it made me shed bitter tears in sorrow for

My dear, dear Husband,

I received your line tonight from Frederick City, I am ten thousand times obliged to you for your thoughtfulness in writing to me so often, and I am very sorry that you don't receive my letters. This makes 4 that I have written this week, one Sunday, one Tuesday night, and Wednesday night, so please don't accuse me any more of being negligent about writing you.

I declare it is too bad that you should not have a decent place or anything to eat, I thought they used you mean enough but I didn't suppose that they had got so that they freighted you on the cars like so many head of cattle, and when I

Harpers Ferry, Oct 3rd, 1862

Dear Wife,

I move from one place to another so often that I despair of hearing from you, but I shall continue to send you a line as often as I have opportunity. If we march into Virginia tomorrow I may not have another opportunity soon. I wrote you two short letters at Frederick, which is the best place I have seen since we passed Philadelphia but we could not stay there but two days of course. We were ordered to pack our duds and yesterday morning we did so and had to wait ’till dark before we got aboard the cattle cars. We should have preferred to have marched it if we could have