17th Maine Infantry - WIA Wilderness

Item LTR-63

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3 pages period ink

Fort Stanton Washington D.C.
September 21, 1862

My Dear friend Hatt,

I thought that you would think hard of me if I did not write to you. I dern not know but what that you think that I am imposing upon you to write to you but I could not think of only one else to write to so I thought that I would write to you. I am now where that I cannot go up to your house Sundays and evenings the same as I use to when I was at home and I suppose that you are glad to get us out of the way. I think that I should if I was in your place for we were around in the way all of the time. What made you let Jim and Lewis come away and leave you and the rest of the girls? It will be lonesome in Sodom by if they keep on. Suppose that Jerry and Nell will not come out here. It is a fine place out here as anyone could expect to see. It is not Sodom by any means. I suppose that you heard about David once and a while. He is well and Spike he is well as can be expected for him. You know that he is getting old fast and the rest of the boys is well and have plenty of salt horse to eat that is good you know. I hope that Jim will not have to come out here for we shall be at home next spring early enough to plant corn. I have not heard anything from the Maine Cavalry since we came out here. I suppose that you have heard from Alvin, have you not. I hope that he is well and the rest of the boys from Yarmouth. I was sorry that I could not have come out and seen you and that the rest of you. I should have thought that you might have come in while I was in Portland and seen me, and the rest of the boys when Mary and Nell were in. I should have been glad to have seen you. I have been at meeting this fore noon in the hot sun. I think that I should much rather have been at home and gone to Yarmouth than to have gone and sat in the woods and set in the sun. You and the rest of the girls will have a fine time this Winter all alone by yourself I suppose that Joseph is say that he did not come out here with us. I think that I have written enough as bad as this looks you must excuse all mistakes. So good day from a friend. George O. D. Soule Co “E” 17 Maine Regt Maine Volunteers
Washington, D.C.