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1Author:  Brand Civil War Collection: Brand, William FrancisAdd
 Title:  Brand Civil War Collection: Letter from William Francis Brand to Amanda Catherine Armentrout, 1863 January 19  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar 
 Description: I have seated my self for the purpose of writing you a few lines to inform you of our wharabouts my health is very good & hope theese fiew lines may find you enjoying the blessings of health and happineſ I have been waiting in suspence for some time for a letter from you I have come to the conclusion that my letter never came to hand I wrote soon after I came down, you can well inmagin how lonsome I have been in looking for a fiew lines from you I will now send out the second arrow hoping it may find it's destination Jake told me yesterday eavning that you had never hurd from me since my return to camp I had in writing yesterday put I thought I would wait and send this by Mr Carson as the other failed by mail I have no news of importance to write We ware on pickett last week had a very easy tour of it, I could not see any yankees acroſs the river I think the grater portion of thare army has gon South & some twenty or thirty thousand of our army has gon to meet them we have orders to keep one days rations in our haversacks untill further orders Some thinks we are going to South Carlina I havent but one objection to going It wuldill be so seldom that we could hear from home I would like to See the country & then we would be on the cost whare we could get plenty of oysters we hafto pay six dollars a gallon for them here & no butter then to eat with them, well I got a letter the other day from the mill; I tell you that it had Sams name in more than one line I had to laughf at several of her conclusions of the hearafter we have a large Co. now for duty some sixty odd, the largest in the brigade we have got our tents at last the boys are busy building chimmies to them, I hope we may camp hear all winter We have plenty of wood and tolerable good water, and are enjoying all the sweets of camp life, and you know they are fiew at best I hardly know what to write to interrest you I hope you have recieved any other letter before this time I wish I was whare I would'nt have to write for it is a grate deal more pleasure to me to talk to you than to write I have often been near you in my dreams since I last seen you, but alas what are dreams they vanish in a moment from our sight & are gon forever I hope the time may soon come when I may fondly encircle thee in my arms & call thee mine oh Kate forget the I never can & would not be forgot for the gold of opher, I hope your path may be strune with flowers and if I can not make you happy some other may I ask an interest in your prayers excuse this uninterresting letter I will try and do better next time let no one see this my respects to all & my love to you
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