Letter No. XIV.
Camp Near Fredericksburg, Va.,
August 17th, 1863.
My Precious Wife:
I have just learned that Colonel Sweet, of San Antonio, will start across the Mississippi in a day or two. I have no chance to write a letter. It is 9 o’clock at night; I am writing by a camp-fire with twenty men talking all around me. No news. I am stronger and in better health than I ever was in my life. Joe Ben Majors and Burwell Aycock reached us yesterday, and several others from the hospital. I wrote to Sister Mary Blair yesterday without knowing there would be an opportunity of sending it.
All the Waco boys are well. Love to Mr. and Mrs. Carter and Bro. Burleson, etc. Kiss the little darlings for me.
Your husband, faithfully ever,
John C. West.
