149th Pennsylvania Infantry - Bucktail Regiment

Item LTR-11550

Description

Original Civil War soldier's letter. 3 pages, written in period ink.


Carver Hospital [Washington, DC]
 April 12^th 1863
 
Friend A. O.,
 
I received your kind and much welcomed letter of the 5^th today and was very glad to hear from you and hear that you and the rest of the folks around there was all well.
 
I am well enough that I am well enough that the doctor said that they will be for sending me towards Belle Plain before many days.  But I expect that I can have as much from there as the rest of the boys that are there.  You see that my pen is a very poor one and I can’t get another one today for the Sutler Shop is short, so I shall have to make this one do for this time.
 
We have had very fine weather for the last week.  But it looks very much like rain today.  And it is very warm.  Although, the sun does not shine at all.  There is six of my company in this hospital.  Yet their names are unknown.
 
The bugle is a blowing for supper and I must go and eat.  Well, I have got back from supper and we had a bully old supper.  For we had a chunk of beef, a piece of bread and a bowl of tea.  Don’t you think it is healthy, eh!
 
The last that I heard from the boys at the regiment, they were all tolerable, well, such as there is.  No news to write.  I shall have to stop for this time.  
 
So, remember your old friend and write as soon as you think proper.
 
Gilderoy H. Lawton
 
To Albert Osborn
 
Direct as before and if I go to my regiment, the letters will follow me.