Bone Letter, December 22, 1861

              Camp Hebert Tx
					Dec 22nd 1861

Dear Minerva: 
	Another opportunity offering I send you a 
few lines. I am well and hearty and getting 
along finely. I sometimes feel lonesome and wish 
to be with you and talk with you about what 
has occurred to me since I left home, but I 
look forward to the time when we will tell 
each other in our own confiding way the little 
incidents pertaining to our separation. 
I have anxiously looked for a letter from you 
and others for the last week but so far have been 
doomed to be disappointed.  No letters came and 
no word from you.  But one letter from you 
and the time so long. You will write to me I know 
it, won’t you? I sometimes fancy to myself the 
improvement in little Watson’s looks for I hear he is 
growing and is fat. I also imagine I can comprehend 
his improvement in talking and I would fair say 
that he is a good boy in addition to his smartness. 
Tell Watson I want him be a little man and 
work for his Ma. That other little fellow you have 
in the family being a stranger to me I will pass 
him by till I find out his name, who he favors, etc. 
I will guess however that he favors you, and 
as a matter of consequence is very interesting. 
What have you to say about him.