The Civil War Letters Camp Robertson Portsmouth Virginia June 18, 1862

Camp Roberson Portsmouth Va
June 18th 1862

My Dear Wife

i received your very kind letter yuesterday and i was glad to hear that you was still injoying good health as it leaves me at present

but as yet i have not Received the likeness nor the letters and papers that you sent me  the reason i have not Received them is i suppose is because our Regiment is spread all over the country  Col Harlan is Before Richmond with 7 companys  there is one company at Fortress Monroe  Company E and Company A are at Portsmouth with Major Wetherall and there is 3 companys at Suffolk with Lieut Col Spear

So you see our Rigement is pretty well split up and i suppose that is the Reson i have not Received your letters  i think that they must have been sent on to Richmond  but if they have been sent there i suppose i will get them sometime. Dear Wife  as i write this letter i do not know but what we may leave this place today but where for i do not know  some of us think that we will be sent to Fortress Monroe to join Gen Dix but as yet we have received no orders. we may stay here for some time or we may not

this place and Norfolk across the River is the livelyest place we have been in yet  since i have been i am one day on duty and two off and the days i am off duty i generaly take my horse and have a Ride through Portsmouth and across the ferry to Norfolk  yuesterday i Rode over to Norfolk and had my likeness taken and i have sent it to my Uncle John  if you want to see how i look now you must go over to Uncle Johns and take a look at it. the reson i sent it there was that i promised before i left home to send my likeness to Aunt Elizabeth so i have kept my promise. this Norfolk is a gay place for Girls  there is girls without end  but the most of them are of the Stripping street stamp  they are pretty much fancy womin that do anything but work for a living  they live high at present on the Poor Soilders money  Since i have been here i have injoyed my self better then i have since i have been in the Army  but i do not think it will last long  i expect to be orderd away soon.

Dear Wife  i have not much more to say  only that i might say that you are never out of my mind  though i dont say much in my letters about Love yet maggie i still Love you as Dearly as ever and i have never known no other love but yours  and i will be very glad when this war is over that i can return home to my wife never to leave you again

From Your Affectionate Husband
William Lancaster

in your letter of yuesterday i received 8 Postage stamps
Yours, W.L

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