1862 August 16 Fort Runyon

                       Fort Runyon Aug 16th 1862
                                 Sat eve 9 oclk

My Dear Wife

                             I received your most welcome
letter of the 13th, this afternoon. I was very glad
to get it, because I did want to hear from yo
so much,and then again, it was a capital
letter, a good long one, just such as one as
I like to have from you,  I wish you would
always write just such ones, and most espec-
ially the long part,  I am very glad to hear
that you wand the other darlings are well,
I am pleased to know of your ride to Lynn-
field and that you enjoyed yourselves so much,
how I should liked to have seen Ernie,
when the sentinel pointed the musket
at him,  Poor little fellow I guess he thought
he was gone that time sure, Did'nt he
dream about it at night, to-day there has
been plenty of excitement here,  Two regmts
of Infantry have come over from Washington,
the Penn 124th Regmt and 126th, they
passed through the fort and encamped
about a mile above Ft Albany, Yesterday

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the 107th N.Y. passed,they also encamped
a mile or so above here, so you you[sic] all
the new regiments begin to pour in thick
and fast,  I expect next week there will be
lots of them pass here, We'll clear the
rebels out when we get ready.  I guess you
would think it was, all quiet on the Potomac
now, if you were here, I cant hear but just one
cricket chirping, and he seems about "played out"
Good night I'm going to bunk

[letter of Robert, and unidentified solider in Co. M, 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, to his wife Priscilla of Lynn, Massachusetts, will continue on August 17]

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