Augs the 7) 1863
My Dear Wife
I have once mor taken my pen in hand to ancer your kind letter that I have recived this eving and I was so glad to hear you was well and I hope thoes few lines will find my dear quite well as it leaves me at present my dear wife you sed in your last letter that you had sent me one dollar and now to dollars but to I have got all right the one I never have sean my dear wife and I was glad to hear that you had got hom a gain all safe your letter was maild the second of augs and I got it the 6 and we have had a great thanksgiving day on the sixt and prayer meating and it goes clear throw the hol united states army let them be wear ever thay maybe and we had a nice rain to day for the weather is so very hot hear for we are glad to get in the shade so I will leave you to gess how it is but my dear wife we expect to get our pay now in a few days for we have sind our name to the pay rolles yesterd but my dear beloved wife I must thank you for that monney and I hope that I shal be able to return it to my dear wife a gain before long and great deal more to it my love and it will be a happy day for us to meat a gain to part no mor til death parts us o my dear wife wold I like to have my arms a round your neck in bed to sleap to nite a gain as I have don a good many times before my dear sweat wife and you my darling of my hart and you are the best friend I have got in this cuntry and you are the nearst and dearst frend I have now to rite to and I hope god will have mercey on us and poor down thy spirit from above and warm thy hart with holy love and that god may open the door of haven and that and we may set on the right hand of god the father all mity from thence he shall guge the quick and the ded but my dear wife I shall be glad when I can get by your side to set down to eat to gather and I hope when I com hom a gain my dear wife will be reddy to receve me at the gate and you must rite as often as you can my dear wife we dont no when we shall have peace but that great god a bove does now he noes all things and he can do all things and sees all things but let us pray that god will bring us all safe at last my dear wife we are loud soft bred now but I cant tell how long we shall get it and we get one lofe a day but my love this war must com to a end som day for every thing look better and better every day a little and I hope it will keep so till the war is all over and I gess you do the same my dear wife and I gess a good meny more do my dear wife but my love I do not want you to run your legs of from you to get a hat if you can get one handy hom it will do just as well my love but my love I must tel you a little about wat they are doin at hicken bridge they are bildin very strong forts for a large armey for the barreckes are like them at Cleran and great deal larger than them at hom and some of them are for the winter next but my dear beloved wife I hope be fore it is time to go into winter quarter we shall have our winter quarter in our one house my love and when I am a riten to you it makes me feal so that I dont no wat to do with my self you cant rite all you wanto I no nir mor cant I my love if I cold rite all I want I should have some very large letters my dear wife and I hope god will spare our life till we can meat a gain and we are gon back to danvill a gain but how long we shall stay hear I cant tell but the report is hear that we are a goin a good ways further down south than we ever have bean yeat but my dear wife in stead of our goin further of I hope we shal come near hom my dear wife and may god bleach your dear hart my sweat dear wife and that is all I can think of this time so thear is no more from you dear husbon Stephen Burton the one that loves you from the bottom of his hart so good day may god bleach you and me now and for ever amen kiss is sweat when we meat a gain to part no mor till death parts us both
Danville
Kentucky
the husbon of Mrs. Polley Burton
