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1863-05-07 Page 01
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Hd Qurs 2nd Iowa Inft Corinth May 7th 1863 My dear darling wife: This is a very cold and disagreeable day, and the weather has been so for several days, yet I am just as happy as a lark & could eat you up in about one minute if I had a half a chance you sweet sweet Clara dear wife. I looked pretty strongly for a letter from you last night but did not get it. I suppose that you were busy paying out the money I sent you. Acting Paymaster. And I know that it does you just lots of good. Yesterday Mrs. Capt Coun come down with the Capt from Bethel to see Corinth and stopped at Lt Col Wilcox&'s. I called in the afternoon, and had such a nice time with Mrs. C. & Mrs Wilcox. Mrs Coun is just as Sweet as ever. She spoke of Maud being so sharp and calling me &'her Beoau&'. She said "she did wish I would go home when she did." She said she was going to call and see me any how if I had no wife with me. Now am I not popular? Bless your noble Queenly self. I sat yesterday and looked at those two ladies and just thought how exceedingly you were to be loved and admired above them all. O pet you do not know you gentle and
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Hd Qurs 2nd Iowa Inft Corinth May 7th 1863 My dear darling wife: This is a very cold and disagreeable day, and the weather has been so for several days, yet I am just as happy as a lark & could eat you up in about one minute if I had a half a chance you sweet sweet Clara dear wife. I looked pretty strongly for a letter from you last night but did not get it. I suppose that you were busy paying out the money I sent you. Acting Paymaster. And I know that it does you just lots of good. Yesterday Mrs. Capt Coun come down with the Capt from Bethel to see Corinth and stopped at Lt Col Wilcox&'s. I called in the afternoon, and had such a nice time with Mrs. C. & Mrs Wilcox. Mrs Coun is just as Sweet as ever. She spoke of Maud being so sharp and calling me &'her Beoau&'. She said "she did wish I would go home when she did." She said she was going to call and see me any how if I had no wife with me. Now am I not popular? Bless your noble Queenly self. I sat yesterday and looked at those two ladies and just thought how exceedingly you were to be loved and admired above them all. O pet you do not know you gentle and
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