Roswell Farnham to [Mary Farnham]
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I have received two letters from you since writing. I have been so busy that I have had not time to write much.
Since we came here I have not been very well & have not felt very energetic. I have done only what I felt to be absolutely necessary. I have been bilious - took some of Ayer's pills & got well. Today I am as well as ever & what is better I have got a boot on my lame foot. I have been with an old shoe until today.
Yesterday we had a review which I attended. My horse felt nicely.
We went down to a meadow on
the banks of the Potomac.
We had orders yesterday to make huts which looked a little like going into winter quarters & we began to think we had got to stop here but an order tonight in regard to cutting down our baggage looks like moving again. What it means I cannot tell.
You will continue to direct your letters as usual. Always put on the name of the Regt. Laura's letter went round considerable before I got it. Tell her that I will write to her soon.
I have written to Brattleboro in regard to those pictures & when you get them I wish you would send four of them out here to me - one at a time in letters - four of mine. You will give Laura one of each kind.
I have not yet rec'd the
second collar. When did you send it? When you
come out I shall want you to bring a good box of preserves &c. if you have
them. - they will be good here I think. We had Genl. Casey at dinner yesterday
& he said he had not eaten so good a dinner for a long time.
You enquire about my position - As long as Col. Blunt is in command of the brigade I am in command of the Regt. & should he be permanently promoted I stand a good chance of being made Col. I should feel pleased to be on many accounts but have no anxiety about the matter. Whatever happens I think I have given good satisfaction so far.
The Bradford boys are well & the officers of that company do their duty thoroughly.
Ormsby has done no more than I supposed he would in relation
to Cy's
business, but there was no understanding between us about the matter. He can be
as mean as he chooses. Ben Bascom is to take one of those colts to winter &
Walter Carter the other. If Bascom will not take that one Mr. Ezra Tucker will
or perhaps Mr. Carter. My. Carpenter called to see me today & told me that
he had arranged with Bascom.
You must get along & not work too hard. Give my love to Laura & Ruth & Ben. Tell Ben if he had been out here last week that I could have got him the chance of sutler for our Regt.
It is possible that I can get him the chance by & by now, if he wants it. Say nothing to anybody but him about it. Excuse my short letter for it i now 11 o'clk. & cold as Greenland.
From Your affectionate husbandRoswell Farnham