1864 Letter - John W. Reeves to Minerva C. Reeves
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Mrs. Minerva C. ReevesHillsborough, NC
Gatlin’s Battery
Via of Wilmington, N.C.
May 8th, 1864
Dear Wife,
I drop you a few lines to inform you I am well and hope this may find you all in good health. I got back to the Company on Thursday morning. We are doing a good deal of duty at this time, we are not having so easy a time of it as we had before I went home. We have to stand guard nearly half of our time, and work some besides repairing our Battery &c. The weather is clear & quite warm, and the fleas & muskitoes very troublesome. - The Captain’s waiting boy ran off this day was a week ago and is supposed to have went to the yankees. I got home at a good time as they stoped giveing them while I was gone. I was the last man who got one, and I feel better satisfied than I was before I went home, as I found you getting along with the work much better than I expected. Tell the boys to try & work the crop good & I think you will make enough to do on. Write to me as often as you can and I will do the same. Give me all the news when you write. Tell Pop to give my love to Tom & Jim & also to brother Hugh when she writes to them. Tell Telisha to send me the song Ballad she and Bet sung while I was at home. Tell Lucinda to send me the one Lydia and Susan sung. Kiss little Martha for me, and write soon.
good bye
John W. Reeves