The Civil War Letters Suffolk Virginia November 4, 1862

Suffolk Va Nov 4th 1862

My Dear Wife

i received your kind and truly loving letter and glad to hear that you was still injoying good health as this leaves me at present

Dear Maggie  in your last letter i could plainly see the trace of tears  Maggie i would not be the cause of your tears if i could help it  but Maggie we are apart now but i do long to meet you once more  as you say it is one year since we have been together and Maggie Dear it has been a long year to me  and i hope it will not be another year before we do meet again  i hope that i shall have the happyness to meet you again

Maggie  you must be of good cheer  i will live to come home to you and i love you to well to leave you any more

if i ever i leave home again you will come with me  but Maggie Dear  i think that we will spend many happy year togather yet  i belive that God will spare me through this war and i do promise you that i will be to you one of the best of Husbands  i will keep my promise  i am so glad that Lizzie is doing so well  i would like very much to see her  i know that she must be a pretty child and i love her though i have not seen her only her likeness which is a Beauty

Dear Wife  i have so many thoughts in my head tonight after reading your letter that i can hardly write  i am Proud to have a wife that can write such a letter  Maggie it is the sweetest letter i ever received in my life and it is the greatest pleasure i have to receive your very kind letters  i have not time to write much of a letter tonight  it is getting late and i will have to go on Picket in the morning so i must try and get some sleep tonight for i cannot sleep when i am on Picket  So you must excuse my Poor Short Letter

Maggie  i do Love You Most Dearly  No Husband never loved a wife better then i love you

i must now close

Give my Best Respects to Jane  your Mother and all the family and all inquiring Friends

My Most Sincere
Love to you
From Your Affectionate Husband
William Lancaster

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