My dear & Beloved Wife
I seat myself this afternoon again to drop you a few lines to let you know I am well at present & hope this may find you enjoying the same blessing of God. The weather is very pleasant here just now but the Camp is muddy yet. But if it stays a few days warm yet it will dry up & then we will have a pleasant Camp. I still cannot tell you how long we will stay here yet. Perhaps until spring.
I received a letter from old Daddy Lower on Saturday & he stated that you had wrote to him to get a house & he said he had rented Lewis Wolfs house for you on condition if you would take it at the rent he said. He had wrote to you & I wrote back to him to rent it right off for you. I was thinking you would perhaps want to write to me first to know what I thought about it & may be it would be too late then so I just wrote to him to rent it & article for it at once. I shall be very glad if you get that house it will be better for you & also for the children. By all accounts I think we will not have to go more than a year & then My Dear if I live I will be with you & I want to stay too. I hope you may get along well when I hear that you are well & getting along all right. It encourages me a great deal. I have not rec’d a letter from you or George for a week. But I am looking for one every day. If I get staying here till spring, I will try & get home to see you. I would like to see you just now My Dear, But have Patience & we will see each other again. If I could just be at home about 4 days I would be satified again. I would like very much to see you & the children. We have not much news to write. Here everything is dull at present. But I guess there will soon be a change in a good many things & then we will have more to write. If I was just with you I could tell you a good many funny things that I have saw since I am at this Camp. But it would not do to write it on paper. If I just knew you would get it I would write you a whole sheet full of funny things & you could laugh your belly full. I wrote James Spence a letter the other day & I guess they are in a great sweat again about us. I told them my reasons for going into the Army. I am not sorry that I have enlisted for my ownself. But I pity you. But still you know why I went & that will satify you. We can love each other just as well when we are separated as if we were together. But still there is something wanting. Write soon & don’t forget & may God Bless you & take care of you is my Prayer.
Your Loving Husband
Jacob
To My Dear Wife Lydia A. Bushey
Don’t forget to write My
Dearest Wife & I will Kiss you a
Hundred times when I get Home.
A Kiss For
You Dear Lydia