Bradford Sparrow to Parents and Brothers
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I rec'd your letter dated March 27 or the eve of the 4th. It had been nearly 2
weeks since I had heard from you & as you said that you wrote every sunday I
think I must have lost a letter. I got the 10 postage stamps in the last all
safe. I has been cold chilly wet weather lately, the worst time for health I
have seen since I came to Va. I am not very well just now, but nothing serious
only a turn of the diarhea, it has been quite bad, but is not so bad as it was,
I have had it some over a week the Dr. has excused me
from duty the last 3 days, I shall get over it soon I guess.
The
Paymaster made us a visit last sunday, we got 2 months pay. I shall send some
home now right a way, the way that I did the other. I will write again let you
know when to look for it, I rec'd the papers you sent, the more I read those
papers the more I want to, so I have concluded that to subscribe for the
Repository & have it every week is money well spent, & I want you should
start it for me the first time you go to Montpelier day after tomorrow you know
is my birth dady which perhaps if I was out of the army I should think was quite
an event in my life, but as nothing uncommon is likely to take place in this
monatonous way of living by which I may remember that period of life which is
looked
upon by many as the time when young men take upon
themselves the duties & responsibilities of men. I will cause one to
transpire that will answer the same purpose & at
the same time afford me considerable pleasure & much information on
different [tapies] that will be of use to me, that is to
Subsesafe for the Repository. I have not heard yet what the result was of the second town meeting in Elmore, but I should
think they that if they did received that vote they would be so ashamed of themselves that they could not feel
very comfortable away from home after seeing what Morristown has done,
Ira is here yet, his health is about the same.
I am glad to hear that
you like so well anyone new farm & that you have got such a nice sugar or
chard, you said you should like to have hazel show me the farm. I think you
[] have to put it off inst about one year & then I hope & think
that the war will be over; dont you & when Gen. Grant gets his army
reorganized to suit him & his plans laid he will strike where it will tell.
I dont believe that authorities in Washington does [] his plans
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Ira sends his respects to you & says he will write when he gets into his new quarters if not before.