Point Lookout July 30th 1863

Hammond General Hospitle
Point Lookout July 30th 1863

My Deare Wife I sat down to write these few lines to you to let know how I am I am getting quit smart a gain for which I feel to thank God in sparing my life up to the present time.
I hope these few lines will finde you and the children wall and happy I have had no letter from home scince a week a go last Tuesday and I know you must have written before now that is if you are able to write this has been a good week to my soul I feel that Jesus rains in this poor unworthy heart of mine.

Bliss his holey name I will tell you how I pass away my time.
I have a little duty to do cleaneing up around our ward and mak the drs. Bed and then fetch a pail of ___ the Dr and the balance of the time I have to my self wich I have fore my self which I spend in readeing the bible or some other good religious books or ‘wall’ about on they shores of they bey and the Potomac but no place can I find like my old deare home this is Sunday to day I am pretty well to day I received your kind letter last night and was glad that you and the children was so wall it makes me feel good to finde that you are all wall thanks be to God for his goodness to us ‘ward’ may he keep us all safe secure from all harm and hasten the glad day when we shall be permited to ‘in___’ at home never to be sepperated again till we are removed by the hand of dearth I thik there is a little light brakeing forth out of the darkness that hovering over country so long the rabells are getting tired of this war they are meeting with reverses every wheare that God may speade the time when the south shall lay down there arms and return to there ‘cheages’ to the old stars and stripes and I do hope the people will learn righteousness and love and fear God.

Chloe I cannot heare and see much now a days it is like being transported on some lonely land or like being about up in some prison there is not one that is contented heare there is one thing that I like being heare in the summer time and that is an account of the water the coole breases makes it comfortable for the sick I think I shall get wall again my side is some better then it was my eye is nearly wall again and I begin to have a little ‘enibation’ again some times I wish I was with the reagement again but then I know I could not march and carry my knapsack and therefore I content myself wheare I am.

Tell Elgin that I was pleased with that short letter he wrote to me.
I am glad he is a good boy and that Mr. Farrs folks like him and I hope I shall always heare that he is a good boy and when I come home I shall remember him.

I cannot think of any thing more so I must stop. I want you to send me a doller as I wrote in my last and for feare you may not get it I thought I wold mantion it a gain I am out of writeing etarial this was the last of sheet of paper and the last poststamp and only ten cents in money and five or six hundred miles from home.

Good by for this time from Isaac Gibbs to Chloe L. Gibbs.