Lyman S. Williams to Lois L. Williams
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I recd. a Letter from you this morning and I need not to tell you that it was
welcome to me as your letters always are for I love to hear from home now as
well as I ever did and I love the folks at home as well as ever. I wrote to you
on the 7th and again on the 19th and I think once becide but am not certain but
Mary tells me she has recd. none since the one that was written
on
the 5th but I presume that you both have received some before this. Your letter
was post marked the 20th I also got a letter from Mary this morning In which she
says that she likes her new brother & Canada Cousin very much. I wish I were
there to see them to. You must give my love to Cousin Sarah McLane and tell her
that I wish I were there to visit with her. How long is she going to stay in
Vermont &c. &c. and how are all the folk in Canada. Tell Nathan to write
to me and tell me all about his visit to Canada and the folks there &c. I
have had nothing to do to day for
the most of the Regt. are out on
picket and I should have gone to but at the time they went out I was on other
duty so I did not go. so all I have had to do to day has been to sit in my tent
and keep as cool as possible and write letters but it is almost impossible to
keep cool it is so hot but one of my boys has been off and got a lot of ice and
so I have a pail of ice water in my tent to drink when I choose It is very dry
and dusty here as we have had no rain this month to speak of & I do not know
as we shall have for a month to come We are near the Petersburg & Welden
R.R. and have took
up about six miles of the track & burned a
bridge &c. I am well as usual and in good spirits. You say that you have
heard that I was a Lt. well I am. My Commission was dated the 15th of last month
and I received it on the 5th of the month and was mustered into the service as
an officer on the 6th inst and have been doing duty as such ever since I am 2nd
Lt. in Co. “C.” of this Regt. and you may tell Aunt Loretta that I am ahead of
Brownell now if he was ahead of me last winter as he is now only 1st Sergt. in
Co. “I.” and if I had not been promoted he would not have been Orderly now. You
must not hesitate to
direct your letters to Lt. L S Williams Co. C
6th Vt. Vols. and I shall get them I wrote to Father on the 6th or 7th but as
the letter may be lost I will tell you what I wanted and you can tell him and
that is some money as we have not been paid for some time and I want the money
to pay for my Saber and Equ- ipments and some clothes as I have to clothe myself
now. The amount I wanted is $50 dollars if he can send it to me. If he has not
got my letter and sent it already he may send it by Alf Douglas or some of the
boys that are at home and are going to return to the Regt. soon
if not he can send it by mail and charge the same to my account I saw Frank
Austin to day and he is well as usual He is close by us at present. Orman is
well so is Lt Fletcher and Barna Mattimore and Mortimer Lister and the rest of
the boys. The Capt of my Co. was wounded on the 5th of May and went to Vt and
has not got back yet but we expect him soon. The 1st Lt is a fine fellow and an
excilent officer and we are the best of friends His name is Henry N Bushnell We
are having a quite easy time of it to day and expect
to stay here a
few days If we do it will be the first easy time since we left camp on the 4th
of May Still we may move in an hower as the report from the picket line is that
the Enemy are moving to our left on the other side of the Rail-Road and perhaps
they will try to turn our left and drive us back but they will meet with a warm
reception if they attact us here but some think that they are pulling back from
Richmond and are on the way to North Carolina but time will decide which is
right and which is wrong. I should like to be at home very well at present but
Uncle Sam wants all his soldiers
in the field at this time and I am
willing to stay and do my duty the best I can. Day before yesterday the 4th
& 11th Regts lost a good number of Prisoners as they were on the scurmish
line and the enemy turned their flank and got into their rear and gobbled them
up through the carlessness of some of the officers in Command. But I have
written you a long letter already and so I will stop. I want you to write often
to me and I will try and do the same by you. Give my love to all the folks at
home and to Cousin Sarah if she is there.
This from your Aff. Brother L.S. Williams Lt. Co. C.
6th Vt. Vols.