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 __**Primary Sources for the 138th Pennsylvania Volunteers**__
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+Letter of Joshua Wood to his Brother
+Camp Relay\\
+Feauer the 1
+Dear Brother
+I take this opportunity to write to you to let you know that i am getting along very well at present and i hope that you are well i wish you good luck.  i heard that you was married.  i wouldn't let like you to write to let me know how you are geting along. i wont now what is the matter with you and mother. i think that it is very quire that you and mother cant live together.  i wont you to see that she gets a place for she sees that she has to move. i think that you are to keep her for what she has down weather she ever anything down not for you now that i now how it is i don't won't you to think hard of me for writing this to you for every letter i get from Mother see that she has to move i don't now when i will get home.  They say that we will get money Tuesday, you must write so i will write a letter to mother today and i want you to see that she gets it for i wrote one last friday week.  Write soon so good by. Give my love to all from you affectionate Brother.
+Joshua Wood
+tell Fi[...] i hope that little Boy is going a long first rate.
+tell him to write to me. i got one from him but i have felt too lazy to write to him.
+Norman Daniels Collection\\
+Harrisburg Civil War Round Table Collection\\
+U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
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+https://sparedshared22.wordpress.com/2021/07/25/1863-64-john-farrell-frantz-to-lydia-a-frantz/
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+Letter of Joseph T. Michener to a Friend
+Camp Relay Feb 1st
+Dear Sir,
+I now take this oppertunity of writing you a few line to fill out this shete of paper well John  I am well and enjoying good health and hope you and your wife is the sam Well John I expect You feel like a married man by this time now. you ar dun sporting around with other wimen you have tied the not with your tung that you can’t  unty with your teeth well I think I will close so good by my love to you and your new frow Write soon from your friend.
+Joseph T. Michener
+I would like to had a peas of weden cake.
+Norman Daniels Collection\\
+Harrisburg Civil War Round Table Collection\\
+U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
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+Letter of Frank Roberts to a Friend
+Camp Relay March 1
+Dear Friend,
+How
+strange it seems not to have you here. It seems as though it were absolutely necessary that you should be here to make things look right. I raise my head and right before me I see your empty bunk.  No blanket, no knapsack, no Josh, no nothing.  You would not believe how we miss you. When you were here and we did not happen to see you. we always knew you were down in Cap’s quarters but now we do not find you there.  How does home go by this time?  Would not you rather be down here once more.  It has been very windy today and our house as usual is on a rock as usual.  Josh you ought to have been here last night. Lieut. Lovett was Adjutant on dress parade and when he went to open the ranks they were standing at an order arms.  He said "to the rear open order march" but as soon as he seen his mistake he said "Hold on battalion" so now we have that for a by word.  Dave Shelmire and me were police to day and we got to wait on the steward so we had it bully, nothing to do of any account all day. The Colonel has got something like the manipotes and was crazy yesterday.  Hurra for little Mac. He will soon be our Colonel and then look out for breakers! He will put us through about right.
+I expect you have been up to see Joe so when you see him again tell him to write. Tell him that he got me into this scrape and that now he must write to me to keep my spirits up.  Tell our folks to write oftener. What did Joe think of his valentine? Did he know where it come from? I believe I must close as this is the fourth letter I have written to day and I am tired so good bye
+Your truly.
+Frank
+The Old Women sends her pious regards. George Shoffnier say that as soon as you write to him he will send you his picture.
+Cousin tells me to tell you that he is still orderly but for a time is reduced to policemen. Stoker says to tell the Old he fellow to send him your picture. George Reesse tells me to tell you if you don’t send him your picture he will come up an beat you playing all fours. The Old Women also wants your picture, George Shoffnier and myself ditto.
+Mrs. Hinkle sends her pious regards and tell you to tend to Katrina Jack Hay sends his pious regards and wants you to write to him. Lutchy says when you go to Halbors to give his regards to all his relations and that he is well and nothing the matter with him.
+Roberts, Frank letters\\
+U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center \\
+HCWRTColl-DanielsColl (Enlisted man's letters, Mar 1, Mar 28, Jun 8, 1863)
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+Letter of Frank Roberts to a Friend
+Relay Barracks \\
+March 28th 1863
+Dear Friend
+I should have written to you sooner but I had not a single postage stamp. I sold part of my part of my horse tools so now I have got a few stamps.  I will write. Last Tuesday we were inspected by Briggs he found the officers a blamed sight dumber than the privates. Last Sunday the Colonel got the devil in him and made believe that he had take arsenic.  The doctors and a great many of the officers ran down there and when they got there he jumped up and laughed and said, What do I see here? Nothing but a lot of one stoned sons of bitches. The Lieutenant Colonel telegraphed to Gen. Schenck and he telegraphed back to put him in close confinement so he now has six guards over him.  We have had it pretty tough guarding for some time but now they have thrown out patrols guarding four out of every company. Cousin Shelmire can't get whiskey any more as he drinks alcohol.  He is nearly crazy all the time.  Joe Michener is now Orderly of Court Martial in Cousins place.
+How do you like home by this time. Have you come settled down into a farmer again?  I have not any news of importance to write so good by. Write soon to your friend.
+Frank
+Roberts, Frank letters\\
+U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center \\
+HCWRTColl-DanielsColl (Enlisted man's letters, Mar 1, Mar 28, Jun 8, 1863)
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+Letter of Frank Roberts to a Friend
+Camp Moore Elysville\\
+June 8, 1863
+Dear Friend;
+As i have not heard from you for some time I thought that this afternoon I would try to pen a few lines to you.  I suppose you have heard of our company moving to Elysville to work on a block house so I will commence with the health of the company.  The health of the company is good excep about half dozen cases of the clap.  Jim Wilson shot himself through the hand the other day so he in not on duty.  the wound is painful but not dangerous.  Bill Vansant is as crazy as ever only more so, the spells are brought on by d[...]ing off and are much more frequent than they were when you here. He fell a foul of a little nigger the other day when he had a spell on and he liked to have kicked his arse off.  The boys like it very well here and pitch into the galls[?] heavy.  Seth Smith is married to a woman old enough to be his mother and ugly as blue mud. Joe Mitchener & John Hay seen to have forgotten Miss Butterworth & Miss Philips at home and
+console themselves with two young ladies by the name of Curtis. Heritage went to see Miss Beckley for a while until Heard cut him out which made Heritage so mad he was going to fight. As for myself I have not seen a girl that I like well enough to go with and another and a stronger reason is that the a—s Of my britches are entirely wore out.  We have jolly times here no camp guard and we can go where we please when not on duty.  Our camp is up on the side of the Standfast so you may know we have a bully place. We have as many strawberries as we like by going over to Dorseys where there is two large beds of splendid berries.  But it is nearly time for me to go on guard so i will draw to a close remaining
+Your friend \\
+Frank Roberts
+Direct to\\
+Co I 138th P V\\
+Alberton P O\\
+Howard County\\
+Maryland
+P.S. Write Soon
+Roberts, Frank letters\\
+U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center \\
+HCWRTColl-DanielsColl (Enlisted man's letters, Mar 1, Mar 28, Jun 8, 1863)
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+//Adams Sentinel//, June 30, 1863
+The 138th Regiment, P. V., which has been lying at the Relay House and Elicott's Mills, has been moved to Maryland Heights. The Heights have since been evacuated.
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Howard County, MD in the Civil War

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