Dwight Henry Cory Letters and Diary

So good a letter as yours deserves a prompt answer and now that I have just returned from church your letter is the next thing on the docket. I had the exquisite pleasure of seeing John Nelson and all the other boys of the 177th OH today. They were on the boat at City Point waiting to start on their journey home. How I wanted to go with them and help to make the 4th a lively day. But be patient Dwight and your time will come about the time that apples and peaches are ripe. Then I expect to have to find no fault with my reception and the young ladies will be expected to do their duty promptly. The boys were laughing at Merie Sloan about his fondness for Rice and his desire to secure some as soon as may be after getting home. I honor his judgment if anything besides a joke was intended to be made known but it may be they were trying to bother me about a rival as they know of our having corresponded for some time. I offered my resignation the other day but it was refused and that put an end to my prospects of becoming a citizen very soon. But I have the promise of a leave of absence for 20 days in a week or two and I may stop in to Uncle Lucian's to see his folks if fortune favors me. Then we will see what the trouble is with you and Liberty. There'll be hearts broken if Liberty, Merie and Cory are all on the same track. No there can be no objection with me to your reading all my letters that you can find, for even if there were anything secret in them, I believe Hattie would keep it sacred and that is saying a good deal for a woman. Will you be so kind to send me the paper in which you ran the notice of my promotion? My commission came only a short time ago and too late to permit of my being mustered on it so that I am a Captain in the State of Ohio but not in the U.S. service and as for directing letters, you can address me as Lieut, or Captain as you like. The hdkf is all right and not a stitch has yielded and you may have it when I come home. Ain't that clever. The one who first informed me of my doom has just told me that the "favored" one lived in a white house east of Curl's corners but I'll see who it is after my return home. We are having new potatoes, Blackberries, cucumbers and everything of the kind here and they are plenty as common for this country. It is raining and is after ten o'clock and as you know it isn't best to keep late hours Sunday nights. I will bid you good evening with the usual parting salute

Truly Your Friend

Hattie D. H. Cory

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