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Wensday Jan 1st 1862
Camp Pierpont VA
A happy New Year to you
my Dearest ones at home. I
hope you have enjoyed it and
all the good things that are re-
quired on such days for I am
pretty well Stocked now but if
it hadnot bin for you I shouldnt
have had any Extrays for to day
but thank Fortune I have a wife
that still loves and remembers
me I received that Box last night
Oh But I was proud of it you
may believe and it just came in
time for to day what remarks the
rest of my room mates made when
I opened it and they wished they
had a good little wife to send them
such things I pitted them and
gave each a taste of my things
some of them has bin in here
longer than I have and never
got any thing from home yet
[page 2]
They said I must shurly have
a Bully woman or you wouldnot
allways be sending me things and
that you are a good cook and
Baker they know Yes I tell them
just the one for a poor Boy
like I am and allways have
bin all that I am Sorry for is
that I have no hous of my own
to keep you better and that I
hadnot a nice little place in
the contrey some where it would
be better for our children We
could Bring them up to a more
useful life than in a town
where they are always idle and
not only that but they lern every
thing that is bad but I hope they
will live to be an honour to there
contrey and to us instead of being
a disgrase as many town Boys
and girls are I am proud of
my children and hope I ever
shall be tell Roby I got his things
[page 3]
and tell Willey that pap got her
little pie I thank them for there
little presants and may the lord
keep them safe in his care is
my prar. Oh my wife But your
sausage and ponnes is fine and fat
and good I am glad it is so nice
them pies oh but they put me in
minde of home and of the times
we have had in geathering and
preparing that kind of Berreys
(my favourite Elder) I tell you but
they are good the bread I can easy
tell is homemad so much better but
still we get verey good bread here
that nice little role of butter oh
how nice it is our preacher wanted
to buy it of me he bordes here but
the Col is here sick he wanted it
for him I tolde him I would see
about it I like good things as well
as they and I donot care about
selling mules as is reported we
get our pay tomorrow then I will
[page 4]
tell grandmother that her present
is just the fit and I am very
much obliged to her Dear wife
I hope now to start for home soon
for the pay master was here last
night but I didnot know it or
I could a got mine last night
Jim Chamberlain got his and left
this morning I didnot know it or
I would sent this with him he
says if nothing turns up he will
pay us tomorrow or Saturday
I hope he will I must stop for
Super is about ready and I
am having some sausage and pon-
nes cooked and I must attend
to it My
Dearest one I am
a Thousand times obliged to
you for your presant and now
I close by Ever remaining true to
you to the last
your husband
Ben
Give my thanks and love
to Uncle Rheubin if you see him.
Those cherreys where nice
Object Description
Description
| Title | 1862-01-01: Hagenbuch, Benjamin, to Wife, Letter |
| Creator | Hagenbuch, Benjamin Del Fel |
| LC Subject Headings |
Hagenbuch, Benjamin Del Fel United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry, 210th (1864-1865) Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| EOA Categories |
History – 1838-1874: Sectionalism, the Civil War and Reconstruction Peoples -- Military Life Government and Politics -- Military |
| Description | These are letters (16) written by Private Benjamin Del Fel Hagenbuch of the 210th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry to his wife in Bald Mountain, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania from September of 1864 to April of 1865. Includes correspondence relating to the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, the battle at Hatcher's Run and the Appomattox campaign. |
| Digital Publisher | Auburn University Libraries |
| Date | 1862-01-01 |
| Original Format | 1 letter, 4 pages |
| Type | Text |
| Format | |
| Original Item ID | RG 0309 |
| Rights | This image is the property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this and other images in this collection, please contact the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at archives@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732. |
| Relation With | www.american-south.org |
| Finding Aid | http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/309.htm |
| Language | eng |
| File Name | Hagenbuch 01.pdf |
| Collection | Benjamin Hagenbuch Papers |
| Repository | Auburn University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. |
| Submitted by | Thornton, Linda; Coxwell, Allana; Coates, Midge |
| Transcript | [page 1] Wensday Jan 1st 1862 Camp Pierpont VA A happy New Year to you my Dearest ones at home. I hope you have enjoyed it and all the good things that are re- quired on such days for I am pretty well Stocked now but if it hadnot bin for you I shouldnt have had any Extrays for to day but thank Fortune I have a wife that still loves and remembers me I received that Box last night Oh But I was proud of it you may believe and it just came in time for to day what remarks the rest of my room mates made when I opened it and they wished they had a good little wife to send them such things I pitted them and gave each a taste of my things some of them has bin in here longer than I have and never got any thing from home yet [page 2] They said I must shurly have a Bully woman or you wouldnot allways be sending me things and that you are a good cook and Baker they know Yes I tell them just the one for a poor Boy like I am and allways have bin all that I am Sorry for is that I have no hous of my own to keep you better and that I hadnot a nice little place in the contrey some where it would be better for our children We could Bring them up to a more useful life than in a town where they are always idle and not only that but they lern every thing that is bad but I hope they will live to be an honour to there contrey and to us instead of being a disgrase as many town Boys and girls are I am proud of my children and hope I ever shall be tell Roby I got his things [page 3] and tell Willey that pap got her little pie I thank them for there little presants and may the lord keep them safe in his care is my prar. Oh my wife But your sausage and ponnes is fine and fat and good I am glad it is so nice them pies oh but they put me in minde of home and of the times we have had in geathering and preparing that kind of Berreys (my favourite Elder) I tell you but they are good the bread I can easy tell is homemad so much better but still we get verey good bread here that nice little role of butter oh how nice it is our preacher wanted to buy it of me he bordes here but the Col is here sick he wanted it for him I tolde him I would see about it I like good things as well as they and I donot care about selling mules as is reported we get our pay tomorrow then I will [page 4] tell grandmother that her present is just the fit and I am very much obliged to her Dear wife I hope now to start for home soon for the pay master was here last night but I didnot know it or I could a got mine last night Jim Chamberlain got his and left this morning I didnot know it or I would sent this with him he says if nothing turns up he will pay us tomorrow or Saturday I hope he will I must stop for Super is about ready and I am having some sausage and pon- nes cooked and I must attend to it My Dearest one I am a Thousand times obliged to you for your presant and now I close by Ever remaining true to you to the last your husband Ben Give my thanks and love to Uncle Rheubin if you see him. Those cherreys where nice |
