Address Co. H. 7th Ohio Regt.,
3rd Brigade
Shields' Division
Washington, D.C.
Near Luray June 13th 1862
My darling--
Here I have before me, your
letter of the 18th of May, together with the
one of the 6th both just received, and
here I am, on a board pile, in front of the
guard quarters, just at sunset, writing
in return to my own loved Addie.
You should have been here and wit-
nessed the glorious sunset with me,---
the golden old "orb of day" disappeared behind
a point of the beautiful Massanutten Mt.
as beautifully as I ever saw any thing,
leaving a mellow light by which I
now write. I might not have com-
menced this evening, had I not been
associating with my thoughts on the beau-
tious scene before me, the image of my peerless
Addie, together with the thought expressed
in your letter of the 6th--that some day, I
can call you mine--and just as the
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glorious sun disappeared, a band struck
up "Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming," so
I couldn't resist the impulse, and "sat me
down and-- " commenced writing.
Did I make so egregious a blunder
as to write "your letter has caused my
headache," when I intended to, and thought
I did write, "cured my headache"? Pardon
me if I did, love, for who ever heard of
such dear, kind letters as you write producing
such an effect? You will have
seen by my last letter that I was not
at the late battle of Port Republic, having
remained at Luray Court House--a.c.-- no
I will not write that. Nous avon killed
or taken prisoners of Co. H., and but five
wounded--none dangerously. The Regt.
lost in killed, wounded, missing, but
eighty=five. Among the wounded is
Capt. Wood, formerly Lieut, in Co. H. He
is now on his way home. I sent by
him a copy of Mrs. Heman's poems to
you, which I "captured." I will tell you
how, when I come home.
Letter of Charles Tenney will continue on the 14th
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