U.S. General Hospital April 5th 1863 Dear Brother I seat myself to pen you a few lines to let you know that I am in good health, and hope you are enjoying the providential blessing. I do not see why it is I cannot get a letter from home. However I shall try again. I have written two to Mother and three to you but got no reply. I stated in my last letter to Mother that she should not answer until I would write again as I inteded going to my Regt. but there were no squad sent to the ninth army Corps I would not go. I do not know when I shall get there. As our kind benefactor has favored me with return of good health I feel fine being in active service again. I now enjoy myself better with the Co. than any where else always plenty of friends. This is Ester Sunday and I have never saw as rough weather at this season of the year. The snow fell last night to the deth of ten inches. It is disagreeably and cold. Nothing new from the army today. For two weeks past the deserters have been returning to their regts by hundreds affraid of the proclamation you see: The people at last are becoming more determined for a more vigorous prosecution of the war, this we have long wished for as it is the only way rebellion will be crushed, the military is getting much more strict than they have been with deserters. This union Legue association knockes the "coppe-heads" all wrong. There are one of those assocations here. This City which has been such a treasonable den, is today a more loyal one than Cincinatti. Having nothing worthy of note to state will come to a close trusting to hear from you soon. Surely if friends at home knew how much satisfaction their letters afford, they would much oftener write. Tehy would rejoice to impart such a benefit at so little expense. I will enclose ten dollars in this letter. I put ten dollars in Mothers letter and forty (40) in one to you. I suppose they have got home by this time. I wll address a part of your name as tre may be another J. W. give my love to Mother and tell her to write. With a brothers wishes I come to a close. Your Brother M. S. Glenn address U. S. General Hospital Patterson Park, Ward 5 Baltimore Md. ==== Justin Justin Kirk Houser Genealogist/Researcher of Central PA and Beyond Main Lines: Houser, Breon, Shawley, Ranio/Hrynio (and others) President, BAHS Class of 2003 Student Representative, BASD Board of Education Listowner, PACENTRE-L@Rootsweb.com Historian, Schürch Association of North America (specialty Central PA lines) Member, Valley View United Methodist Church "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature"