Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
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We are here yet, expected to leave yesterday, dont know when or where we shall
go. Suppose you are in Concord now, & having a good time, I do wish I were
with you. Am tired enough of soldiering, it keeps me from you too much. Who is
Mr. Gates of Lowell How much interest some of yr gentleman friends takes in me.
Please be very careful of those receipts. How is Ben Prescott, remember me to
him. Is miss B, the same terrible flirt of old. I hope
she wont wake
up your old habits. Aint you sorry I have such an advantage of you? How many is
Miss B. engaged to now? I shall be so glad to live quietly with you my wife. But
it will be impossible as we shall have no money & I shall have to get into
business for a living. What a worthless set we soldiers shall be when we get
home, poor & out of & unfit for employment. We shall be getting up
filibustering expeditions. We are eaten up with flies here, they bite through
our shoes, I think yr Father will be benefited by those waters
at
Saratoga & come home better, It is tremendous hot weather. My health is
quite good, I drink a great deal of wine & brandy for me, & these are
well adapted to this climate. My expenses are very large now, but not more than
my wages. Everything is enormously high. Henry is well. Am glad to hear that
people north are beginning to wake up to the demand of the country. Darling
please be a good wife & remember how dearly I love you.
Yr. devoted husbandWheelock