Camp Loring
Monroe Co. Va.
Sept. 1st, 1862

Dear Wife:— I again seat myself to write you a few lines. Not because I
have anything of importance to write about but because I think you like to hear from me every day if you could. But paper, envelopes and stamps cost too much money to write every day. This morning finds me well and hearty and I hope these few lines may find you enjoying the same blessing. I was sorry that father could not stay longer when he was over here for we received our money the next day. For fear I will lose it or have it stolen from me, I thought I would write you a short letter and send $10.00 in it, and risk it rather than keep it here with me. I expect to come home in a week or so if we don t leave here, but it is the talk that we will be ordered from here in a couple of days to do down in the Canawha Valley to clean the Yankees out from there. I don t know that we will go but it is the general talk here. I hope we will not go yet awhile till I get to come home again, but I will never come home till I can come honorably for there are about 16 in the guard house now for running off. They will be courtmartialed and $30.00 of their wages taken from them. I know you want me to come, but not run off, so don t be uneasy I will do all I can to get to come. I received a letter from Eva several days ago and she said you were there a few minutes the day she wrote and said she was sorry to tell me she had not been to see you since I had been gone, but would go and see you and the children before long. I have nothing more of importance to write and will close hoping to get to come home soon. We are at the same place we were when Father was here but the name of the camp has been changed. So goodbye for this time.
Your affectionate husband,
Thomas W. Fisher
 
 

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