Letter from Gooch , Charles W.

Soldier: Gooch , Charles W.
Allegiance: Union
Unit/Service Branch: 27th Infantry
Home State: Maine
Date Written: Wednesday, June 3rd, 1863
Location: Camp at Chantilly, Virginia
Correspondence Type: Letter
Subjects: Camp Life, Daily Life, Eastern Theater, Wife/Girlfriend
 

My Dear Wife,

In accordance with my usual custom, I devote a part of this fourth day of the week and try and commit a few stragling thoughts on paper and submit the same to my dear wife hopeing that they will not be ---- to her and that they will contain interest enough so they will not be secondary or stale but believing they are exceptable I will continue my correspondence as usual.

In the first place, I am pleased to say that I am well and hope you enjoy the same blessings for health is a blessing that no one knows how to prize until they are deprived of it in a measure.

I received a letter from your beautiful hand by last evening's mail for the reception of the same I feel very thankful for your kind letters is very acceptable to me indeed.

You have got home again you told me. I suppose you feel more contented at home than among strangers. It is natural I think you told me about your convenient home and said you told your mother that you did not think I should be jelous. I am not jelous of my wife. If you had rode down from Alfred with anyone it would not have made any difference with me for I think you are too true to violate your oath and I think you are capable of taking care of yourself in such circumstances. So I am not afraid. I have too good opinion of you but I am glad you wrote how you came down for if I had heard you had been riding out with anybody else by any other source I might have not thought what it was or and not know anything about it.

I understand that Mrs. J.C. has added another daughter to her family.

We have had it very dry here for the past three or four weeks but it rains some now but I hope it will hold up by noon for I have to go on picket this afternoon but I do not suppose it will stop for me for it never did but I think it would be more healthy if we could have a little rain to cool the ground once and a while. The peaches nor cherries has not grown any for two weeks. They are all drying up for want of rain. I hope it is not so dry down there.

I do not think I can write anything that will interest you my dearand so I will close hopeing soon to see you. From your true and loving husband, C W Gooch