Jeffersonville, Ind.
March 1st 1862
Dear Wife
It is with pleasure that I take this present opportunity to drop you a few lines in hate to let you know that I am well except a cold which settled in my bones to give me slight rheumatism. Yesterday it was pretty bad but today it is better.
We got our pay on the 26th and I expressed it to you $15.00 which leaves me three dollars. If you can hire it out do so but take good security. I got $17.76 and it cost me fifty cents to send that. I wrote to you that I got that dollar which you sent me. I am out today on a pass and have been over the river to Louisville and now I am writing in Jeffersonville in a store. It has been very pleasant here for some time warm like April but today it is snowing like midwinter. Further I will tell you that we have marching orders to leave for Bowling Green Kentucky and are to leave tomorrow morning. It is about 80 miles and we are to march by land and they say it will take us about four days which will be a wearisome task if it should storm as it does today, but we hope for the best. Now dear Elisabeth keep up courage and do not despair for my sake as I am seeing many things which I never saw before and you said too that I should not take to that poisonous drink to drown my sorrow. Do not be alarmed, dear wife. That would be the last thing that I would do. I have not drank anything since I have been here but one glass beer and another man paid for that. It is now 12 o'clock and I must go back to camp at l o'clock and I have not much to write but if I could only see you I could tell you a great many things which would interest you.
No more at present but remain as ever your true and devoted Husband
Elisabeth S. Kryder Goodbye
Write soon and direct to Louisville Kentucky
Co. I, 3rd O.V.C.
