Thursday, December 6, 2012

1862 December 7 Post Hospital

Post Hospital  Dec 7th/62
Dear Sister
I received a letter from
home since I wrote last the weather
is awful cold here it snowed Friday
and it lays on the ground froze
stiff and likely to stay so I wish
I was too home sitting over the fire
warming my shins just at this
present time You speak of this
camp you cant form any idea
of it without seeing it the
suffering in the camp is awful
Hon Henry Wilson was here this
morning he was real mad
at the sight it was so
scandolous he said he would
have every Mass man examined
before next Saturday night and
all unfit for duty will be sent
home or there will be a row
he told me so himself   I am
going to send him a written
statement of my case &

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see what he will do for me
I guess most of the 22nd boys
will come home You say you
wonder if I have changed at all
in looks, I do not think I have
much only perhaps a little
older you would not think
to look at me that anything
ailed me but there is the last
time we had inspection the
doctor told me I was not fit
for duty  I forgot to state
in my last that a fortnight
ago today saw Eli A smith
he was within 1/2 a mile of
here but has gone out to the
front  Much obliged to you
for sending me your post office
directions I had forgotten it
Tell Ann that I shant write
to her  till she sends me

a long letter am awful mad
with her guess when I get
home I shall cut her acquaintance
Ill bet I will

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The  citizens are round her
like bugs in a bed today I tell
you Wilson was hopping mad to hear
the way we are used here and
that Mass men cannot get examined
  Will write again soon
With much love from
                   Wm Wallace

[envelope]
Miss Mary K. Smith
      Newton  Lower Falls
             Mass
Care of Ms. E. Smith

William Wallace Smith, Co. B., 22nd Massachusetts

MSS 15360

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