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Regiment: 1st U.S. Volunteers Sharpshooters
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Roxberry Vermont
April 22d 1864
Dear Gardner
My Own Darling Husband,
I received
two letters from you to day written the day
I came away and the 17th you do not know
how glad I was to get them. I feel so much
better to hear from you to have a cheering
word from the loved one. O I do hope we
will not be deprived of the privilage of
recieving and sending letters to and from
loved ones for what could I do without
hearing from my Darling Boy. and you
would want to hear from me to. so that
I should feel bad for you as well as my-
self.
You tell me to ask myself when thinking
of Gardner. “Will he always love me as now.”
loving you as I do. Oh. how can I doubt it.
I know you will you must and we will
be so happy in a few short months for you know
you are mine in August. I hardly know
how to wait until then but suppose I must
my thing have come and every thing is safe.
I am glad Spooney has traded horses if he has
got one that is better for you, but I hope some-one
has got “Charley” who will take good care of him
You say you would give two months wages
for Garrison to stay away until he could get
a discharge. and the reason I may guess. I
can think of a great many reasons why you
would like to have him stay away. but do not
know as I can guess any reason of so much
importance to you. Cribbage on the brain does
not affect me. but perhaps it will both of
us when you get home. I am glad Fred
is good at drawing. I think I have learned
to apreciate the sterling integrity of a soldier.
Perhaps you never will get this but I hope you will
I shall look for at least one more letter from you
before the gate is shut. Oh. I shall miss you more
than ever if I cannot hear from you. what can
I do without your loving letters.
I feel somewhat tired after my long walk. and
I tell you I wished for Charley to ride before I
got back. I find there is some difference in walking
four or five miles or riding the same distance.
If they do not stop the corespondence please write
as often as you can.
Yours Always
Love and Kisses
Mary B. Clark
“Never till life and memory perish
can I forget how dear their art to me:”
