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Regiment: 19th Indiana Infantry
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Washington City
D.C. Patent Office
Hospital Oct 28/64
Dear Sister
It is with pleasure that I embrace an opportunity of writing
you a few lines. in answer to your letter. which I received
your letter about three weeks ago. and was glad to hear
from you indeed. that you enjoying health so well. But your
hopes were in vain about me enjoying health. Although
I have enjoyed as good health since I have been in the
army as ever I did at home. for I generally had a spell of
fall. any how: I have been sick here four weeks today
and expect
to have to stay here eight or ten days. longer if not two I
don’t want to stay any longer than I can help sure. Tom
has not been in since I have been in here. He was sick at
the hospital tent at the Regiment and had no person
to take care of him. I stayed with him like a brother,
day and night and cooked him everything that he ate. and
since I have been sick Tom hasen’t been any nearer than
Fort Craig that I know anything of. Well
[ ? ] I have
heard of those weddings till I am perfectly sick of
it. I don’t think that I have received a letter from arou
nd home in two months
but what those weddings has been mentioned in them. For
God’s sake who is left for me? Well it beat all, if a man
wants to marry he will have to take a woman with him
from here or some other seaport town.
[ ? ] as for Sam
Hill and I getting discharges, you can set it down as a no
such thing. We would not receive any such papers as
discharge papers. You dident say a word about Mary. Is
she well. The boys are having a good time at camp. I guess
They are all enjoying good health. Direct as before.
From your affectionate brother
Hugh Parker
if you please
