Well William I hardly know
what to write this time more
than what I have wrote, but
I hope that if I have to write
any more letters that I will
not have so much sickness to
write a bout, but can write
a bout something else. but
I hope I will not have to write
many more letters to you but
can talk face to face, and
that before long for I see
that the 30th Reg't and several
other Reg't are ordered to be
mustered out. I saw this in the
Indianapplis Journal which I hope
is true, for I should like
very much to see you coming
home now for I would think
then that you were a going to
get to stay this time.
Well William let us keep in
good heart and wait with
patience till the time does come
let it be long or short, and
then if we boath live we can enjoy
each others society, and if not here let
us live that we may meet in heaven) now
I must quit for this time good night.
From you wife, Mary E. Strieby to my husband