Mentions the new chaplain at his camp who is an Abolitionist. Transcription: In Camp below Helena Ark March 18th 1863 Dear Mary I feel again like writing to you, I wrote to you day before yesterday, & on the evening I got only 3 letters from you & one from John Hinkle, I would have written to you yesterday, but as I had just started a letter to you, I thought I would wait till today. Your letters were dated Feb 27th, March 3d, & 5th And I was very glad to hear from you I am glad to think that you have got some one on the place that relieves you of a great deal of care & anxiety, & if you can
Mentions the new chaplain at his camp who is an Abolitionist. Transcription: In Camp below Helena Ark March 18th 1863 Dear Mary I feel again like writing to you, I wrote to you day before yesterday, & on the evening I got only 3 letters from you & one from John Hinkle, I would have written to you yesterday, but as I had just started a letter to you, I thought I would wait till today. Your letters were dated Feb 27th, March 3d, & 5th And I was very glad to hear from you I am glad to think that you have got some one on the place that relieves you of a great deal of care & anxiety, & if you can get the man you speak of, I think it would be a better idea than to hire. As it regards the bees, if the stand that Parker selected died, why that is his loss, & whenever he gives you the right, then he will be entitled to another stand, but not till then, & as the swarming season will soon be on, I would like to hear of you getting bees into those new germs, & I think if you clean them out right well they would be apt to stay in them. ? I wish I could have been with you to have helped you eat that turkey, but on that day (by refering to my diary) while you were enjoying your dinner, we were busy fixing up our camp, we had just got off the boat, & all was stir & bustle, we were then about 1 1/2 miles from the line of Louisiana on Ark. shore. ? The weather continues very pleasant, the trees are putting forth their leaves very fast, I see plum trees in fall bloom, & the weather feels just like May in Iowa. ? We are getting things in a good shape, for our Spiritual benefit, which has been sadly neglected a good while, but recently we have got a new Chaplain, not having had one since last spring, & he seems to take hold like as tho ? he was going to try to do something. Night before last he preached a splendid sermon from Luke 15. ? 1 ? 7, after which he made a temporary church organization, 27 have signed the articles of faith, & the Chaplain seems to want to try to do as muc
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