E. H. Wemple to His Wife

Louisville Ken Nov 5th/62

Dear wife

it is some time since I have wrote to you and I thought take this oportunity to do so I am laying at Louisville in the Barracks not fit for duty I am just able to get around and help myself we started from the regment with the expectations of coming home but they would not let us pass here on the paper that the doctor gave us we are waiting for an examingation but I do not know as we will get it I never will be good for anything here and they might as well discharge me as not - this is rather a hard place to lay on the floor with

nothing under me but one blanket I have such pains in my breath sometimes think I can hardly breathe and I have got such a lame back that I can hardly straiten myself up I cannot stand it much longer here before I will be down so that I cannot help myself at all if this doctor dose not examine us to day we are agoing to see another one and all what we can do there I hope I will get out of this before a great while as that I can come home it is awfull lonsome here there is plenty of company to be sure but not such as I want to associate with I would rather be home soldiering is verry

good buisness as long as a man is well but when he gets sick he might as well be dead for he gets knocked around pretty hard I am getting worse every day insted of better no man can get well here

if they do not do something for me pretty soon I shall apply to the Govenor of the state of Ill and see what he will do about it if Father would write to him I think he could get something done for me he knows just how I have been and he can tell all about it there is nothing more to write at pressant you must take care of yourself and I will try to do the same I may have to lay here

for three years if I do not die before that time but I will not give up untill the last moment you must let Father see this letter

so good By and pleasant dreams

From your Husband

E H Wemple

PS when you write to me direct your letter to

E H Wemple

Co. D. 74 Reg Ill Voll

Barracks No 1

Louisville

Kentucky

E H Wemple

Louisville

Nov 5/62

Laying in the Barracks at Louisville Ky. unfit for duty wants to go to his home, is satisfied he will never be able to do service

with enclosed letter from the father of said Wemple

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