Camp AdvanceOct. /61My own darling wife

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I have written so much to yr Father, I guess I cant say much to you but you can consider his letter directed to you also. This is for you alone- I did not know you showed my letters to any one till he told me. But to begin, I should think you were getting along pretty fast kiting around with those stranger Lts. & playing cards with them &c &c &c. What a devoted wife. Shall you enlist? It amuses me to have you say so much about our staying at home

judging from the past I reckon you will soon get tired of staying at home. what do you think really? You know how you are always going to stay at home when I leave you, & again when I come. Now I am getting so I dont believe much in staying at home, & I fear you would consider it a pretty severe punishment to do so. Of course I dont care about the room, I told you to do as you pleased. I ment by its being public, that every body was in & out there as they pleased & in fact at all times. I thought that as all yr friends, male as well as female being in the habit of making yr whole house answer their convenience,

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they would be more likely to blunder in that room at times I should not quite approve of, & in fact if they came in at all it would be so. But perhaps you are more careful now than formerly. Yes darling I think it is delightful to get a letter every day, but I fear imposing too much on you, is’nt it? I cant tell when the war will close or when I can come. Most people think we can get through by another summer. I should be delighted to see you if it were not for leaving again. That would more than counter balance the pleasure. Wont I be glad to come when this work is done up! If you are

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the right sort of wife I shall stay with you probably. How much happiness I lot upon. Will it ever be realized? Yes I hear fr home. I wish you were here tonight. The General’s wife is here, I have scarcely spoken to a woman since I came. O I would like to fold you to my heart. My own dearest love, my own wife. Wish you could see my horse. Its a regular pet, will follow me anywhere & is afraid of nothing. You ought to see my black boy play with it. There seems to be a kind of affinity between them. Good night my own angel. My beautiful wife- When shall I see & hold you in my arms.

Yr Wheelock