Camp Morris Virginia

I send you twenty dollars in this letter (written at the top of the letter)

My Deare Wife I take this opportunity to write these few lines to you hopeing they will finde you and the children all wall as it leaves me at this time for which I am thankfull to God for his goodness to me.

I have just come in from “fricket� and and have just got our pay. We got into camp at 4 o clock and was paid of at 6 o clock and it is nine o clock now and our oaderly Sarjant stirts home on recruiting service for our reagemnt tomorrow morning and I thought I would get him to take my money home for me and drop it in the office for me the best chance I have to send it.

Ma there is a chance for anyone to inlist out heare now close by for the regular servise they are getting up a cavelary reagement of new york men called the “8 cavelry neb _____� united states cavelary for five years they pay twelve hundred dollars bounty 2 hundred when they inlist and the one hundred when they get to washington and the rest in installments every pay day which will be about fifteen dollars a month besides there regular pay which is thirteen dollars per month and if the indiviguel furnish his own horse he will get 28 dollars which will amount to forty one dollars a month besides the three hundred that he gets when he inlists and thirty five days furlow.

Don’t you think I had better go in for it you see that I could come home and sell the house and buy another one neare the academy and then you could rent some rooms to the girls that go to school in time of peace.

The regular soulders have 2 months furlow every yeare. I could send home thirtyfive dollars every month and by the time my time was out we could have 2 thousand dollars saved and if I get wounded or killed in battle you would get the ‘balance’ and also the “pantion� which would support you and the children real comfortable and be something left for them when you and I are gone and they need it.

Write as soon as you receive this and let me know what you think about it. The cavelary servise is easeyer than infantry there is no knapsack to carry and a horse to ride so I must conclude whith my kindest love to you from your loveing husband Isaac Gibbs. Chloe L. Gibbs.