Near the Chattahoochee River GA
July the 11 /64
Dear Wife
I will try and answer your kind letter of the June the 26th. I received it yesterday. I was glad to hear you were all enjoying good health. It is a great blessing to have good health in a time like this. There is troubel enough now. I am well with the exception of a little cold the first I have had in a great while. I have ben verry luckey to escape the bullets and sickness no long. I hope I will be as luckey untill my time is out if I have to stay that long. You say it is verry dry up north. It has ben verry wet here. I wish you cold had some of the rain. It would ben better for the crops there and I know it would ben better for the soldiers. We had to lay down in a mudhole every knight in June untill towards the last of the month. We are having verry fine weather now. It is plenty warm enough. It is foggy this morning as it uest to be on the Susquehannah. I wrote you a letter the 8th. I told you in that we expected to stay here a while but yesterday we was orderd to pack up ready for a march but we havent gone yet but expect to every minuet. The rebels are acrost the river and now we will have to croos and drive them again. We have ben here four days. Quite a good rest for us. We have heard musketry and canonadeing every day but the bullets havent ben flying among us. The first in a good while but I expect we will have to go into it again in a fiew days. I wish I had my pay. I dont know what you will do if I dont get it before long. Every thing is so high. I cant tell when we will get pay. Not untill this campaign ends and we go into camp. I am afraid it wont be till fall. It has ben a long campaign now. It requires a stong constitution to stand it. I guess Matie has forgoten me. Does she ever speak about me. I wish I could see her and renew acquaintance. I would like to see you all verry much but it is over a year yet that I have to got to stay. I guess our regt will reenlist this fall them that want to. I guess I wont enlist untill I am a free man once more. Then if I am like to be drafted I will enlist again. There is plenty of young men that have no familes that should go before I go again but the most of them are cowerds and copperheads. I thank you for the tea and stamps. My love to you. Good buy.
From Charles Engle to Charlotte E
The report is now that Hoods corps is leaving Johnson army. If so I think we will go to. They must reenforce Lee. I dont want to go to VA. It is rhumerd that the rebs are in Harpers Ferry. I wish I knew.