Camp Battalion 6th Vt. Vols.Near Washington D.C.June 16th 1865 My Dear Sister

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I am going to write you a few lines this P.M. to let you know that I am well and in good spirits i.e. (feeling well.) I received your letter yesterday and will hasten to answer it I was very glad to hear from you as I always am to get a letter from my dear sister and if sometimes it has seemed long to you when you did not get a letter from me it has also seemed a long time to me between your letters and I have always intended to write to you as often as you have to me and I have felt sometimes as you wrote in your last that you might find time to write to me if you should try but then I presume that a great many times when you might have written you have not felt like it and so it has been with me. And when

as it has been frequently I have had time only to write a few lines I felt that I ought to write to Mary as she has been unwell and needed them more than anyone else but a truse to this. I will anwer all the letters you have time and inclination to write to me. We are encamped about three miles from Georgetown and have a very pleasant camp and as we have not much duty to do we are getting along finely. I went down to the City of Washington last Tuesday and came back Wednesday night. I enjoyed my visit there very well indeed and mad a few purchases such as a Linen Coat. Shoes. Socks. Pants. Hat. and Hankerchief and a good many other articles that I needed. I went down on horse back and came back the same way. I have been buisy for the last few days in making out the nessicary papers for mustering out of the service those whose times are out before the 1st of October and I expect that they will be on the road for home now in a few day. Well I wish I was going with them Still it is the best I can do to stay here as far as money is concerned for my pay now is $164.00 per month and I can save 100. of that every

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every month and that is better than I can do any where else at present. Government is now owing me nearly six months pay. I have thought that I would resign and come home but there is an order that all officers who are mustered out of service are to receive three months pay in addition to what is then due them but if an officer resigns he looses the three months additional pay and as I am of the oppinion that we will all be at home as soon as August I might get a leave and come home if I wished but I do not know as it would be best for me to do so when we probably will not have to stay more than a couple of months at the most I have not heard from Nathan for a long time and I am in hopes to get one soon The Essex Boys are all well as usual. I have no more to write at present. Remember me to all the folks at home and Give Carrie a kiss for me. Write when the spirit moves you and I will answer

From your Aff. brother L. S. Williams
Capt. C. “I.” 6th Regt Vt. Vols.