London Hights Virginia Nov 2th 1862
Dear Wife
I received your letter last evening was glad to hear from you that you ware all well and in comfertable circumstances I am well and hope when these few lines reach you they will find you enjoying the same great blessing, this day is very pleasant warm and butiful the finist we have had for sometime, yu will see by the heading of my letter that we have moved since I wrote my last letter we moved last Thursday acrosst the Potomac and the Shunnandoah rivers we are now encamped on London Hights virginia overlooking Boliver Hights on which General Sumner,s Corps are encamped a good many of his troops went away the same day that we come over here we crossed the river at Harpers Ferry to come her I therefore had a chance to see the place whare old John Brown sold himself in Verginia for the sake of niggars the same things that was the cause of this war, the 14th Regt the one that Charles Hamlinton is in has been encamped on Boliver Hights but whether it has mnoved or not I do not know, I saw a man that belonged in that regiment at Harpers Ferry the day we moved he said he knew Charles Hamlinton said he was wounded but did not know how or whare he was whether he was dead or alive, how long we shall stay here I can not tell we are subject to leave at any moment, we are now in rebbeldomshure for whilst I am pening these few lines to you I hear the canons awful roar but a short distance from us but at what point it is or what the result will be I can not at this time tell the cannon was roaring all day yesterday in the same direction and commenced again early this morning, and still continues I therefore conclude theremust be some thing of a fight going on some whare but whether I shall be luckey enough to particapate in it or not remains yet to be seen if I am among that number I shall do my prettyest to help some of the rebs to a few doses of lead pills that I have got layed up for them in case they call for them, we are situated about one mile south west from Harpers Ferry, I am glad to hear that some of those chaps from Moodus that got their bountys have got brought up with a round turn, and hope they will yet have a foretast of the pleasures of war instead of sporting about East Haddam on the cool hundred that they thought they had sponged from the town so nice, as for the box and things that you wrote about sending to me mead not send unless I write for them as I may be situated in such a manner that they would be of no use to me, my stockings are very good yet I have not wore those that I brought from home yet from your Husband A.C. Smith
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