July 19th 1863

July 19th 1863
My Deare I received your letters to day and was glad to find that you and the children are well.
 Thank God fore that this has been rather hard week for me.
I have had the diearea real bad this week and the hart dease bad two but thanks be to God I feel some better this morning. 

I have give myself a ‘mess’ to God during the past week and feel that I am the lords soul body and spirit ‘while ma’  theare is nothing in this world but that must fad away and perish with the ‘noeing’ but may be true to our own souls there in the life and love of god then it will be well with us in the world that is to come. 

I hope and pray that I may be spared to come home to my family fore your sakes and it dose seems as though I should after a while if I do not get better. 
I am verry nervis every lilttle thing trubels me verry much.  I know a little how you suffered when you was so sick in the Dr house but then I hope I shall get over these feelings by the next time I write ‘ma’ I wish you would go to Dr. Doller and tell him to send me some nerve powders in your next letter tell him my stomac is verry weak and fills up with ‘wind’ and cause a grate distress. 

I have a grate deale of pain in the back of my heade and neck. 
The male has not come heare this week till saterday night owing to something with toads when the male is regular we get it every day I received 2 letters from you this morning one was maled on the forth of July and the other one the thirteenth one had in 25 cents and the other a piece of your new drass as I suppose and I think it is real pretty. 

I hope you injoyed your visit real wall take all the comfort you posably can.
I am glad your garden looks so nice I would like to see it and those trees do they grow this summer. 
Chloe my decriptif list is heare at this hospittle I went to the clarks office the other day and he loked them over and said that it was heare so the next time they pey of I shall get mine. 

I am not discharged if I am not dis-charged they will put me in this invalid corps to do yard duty somewheares probably I shall never be able for field any more I think. 
I will not frat a bout me I heare to night that the mail was lost that left heare last Monday and if so the letter that I wrote last Sunday must have lost this is Monday morning. 
I am feeling pretty wall to what I have done fore some time I hope y ou do not fret about me my deare. 

May the Lord preserve us from all harm and bring us to gether again is the sinceare prayer of my heart but if god has ‘______’ ‘other’ wisthen we must obey. 
I hope to go to my reagement it is real lonesome heare I think ‘rhoda’ has queer work with her husband doent you he cannot be much. 
I hope they will finde him out so now I conclude with my kinde love to you from your loveing husband Isaac Gibbs to Chloe L. Gibbs.