Letters of William Emslie

August 27, 1863    Campania Hartwood Church

Father
    I got your two letters last night one dollar, eight
stamps and tobacco.  It is the first since I left Glouster 
Point.  I wrote two there, two at the diamont Camp at 
Alexandria, one at Warington Junction, one at Warington
one at Thoroughfare Gap.  The one I wrote from the Gap,
I suppose this is the answer,  I thought you were dead
or had forgotten me.  Did you know Ken J. [?] has been
taken prisoner.  He was on a scout across the Rappahammock.
It seems to me like loosing a brother, but he is not hurt
while laying at the Gap.  I got a letter from Mary with
50 cents in it.  Tel her  I am much obliged to her for it.
About what you were speaking about, I would rather be a
corporal or sergent first for I do not think I am capable
of holding the first yet.  We have ____ ____ in our 
regiment and I would not trust our captain with a cent.
He is a sucker.  He owes about 500 dollars in the company
and if he is asked for it he puts them under arrest,  no
more. 
Your son, William H. Emslie
If you see Col. J.M. Davies, give him my best repects and
tell him what I said.
I have got six months pay due on the first of next month.