[Corporal Everett]
[Hammond General Hospital],
Point Lookout, Md.,
August 9th / ‘63
Dear Mrs. Gibbons,
Yours of 30th was
thankfully received. Was glad to hear
that you reached New York safely, and
were so comfortably situated. I
regret your departure very much
indeed, and wish you could return, but
that I suppose it impossible, at
least for the present. Everything
goes on here finely, but it would
be better were you here. [underlined] Some [/underlined] of
the ladies have [underlined] commenced wearing
their high healed shoes since your
departure [/underlined] - especially Mrs. R.
Miss [?] paid us a visit about
two week ago. It would have done
you good to have seen Robins
cling to her [underlined] apron strings [/underlined] - worse
if anything than Mrs. [?] was
last minutes at the time you came here.
Frank gives her some pretty severe
cuts sometimes.
The piece you sent in your letter
was received in the Post on Saturday
and I had it in the paper before
your letter arrived.
I visited Baltimore since you
left. Called on Mrs. Norris she
told me you had been to see her.
also that she had heard - I don’t
know though what source that
the bust of yours soon was soured
I hope it may be time. I see
by the New York papers that [struck through: a]
some of theirs engaged in
sacking the house have been
arrested.
Things have been somewhat
changed since you left. There is
now a rebel camp for prisoners
just above Murphy’s. 500
more prisoners arrived here from
Washington last night, and it
is said that 9000 are yet to come
Mrs. [Peale?] has been quite sick,
but is more better. Dr. Heger’s family
left the Point two weeks ago. There
are some ladies here yet, including bapts.
Edward’s and Lucas’ families. [?]
was very zealous to get the
ladies off the Point, but keeps his
own here. I should have said more
in the paper about it but Dr. Heger would
not permit it. Hobbs came down
last Friday a week, and on Monday
I bought the office from him for $350
cash. He started for N.Y. Monday night
Plaza remember me kindly to Mia
[?] and tell her that I miss her [underlined] very much [/underlined].
I wish she would send me scraps occasions
as often as convenient. Please
ask Mr. Gibbons to write an article
as often as may be convenient for
him to do so. I wish you could see
the Evening Post, and Tribune to
exchange with us, for we have only
a few exchanges from which we
can get anything worth publishing,
and sometimes I am pretty hard
up for suitable copy for the outside.
Quite a number of new doctors
have arrived since your departure.
Since I have bought the office I have
got fifty-eight new subscribers,
and all but two on the Point
I think that is doing pretty well.
Dr. Heger advised me to buy it, and
told me he would keep me here as
long as he could. He has bought
a lot of watermelons and peaches for
the patients and today each one had the
one sixth of a melon placed beside his
plate at the dinner table [George [?]]
and Frank join in sending love. Hoping
to hear from you soon again I
remain very truly
Your friend
[George Everett]
