1865 Feb 22
Ophthalmic Hospital
Americus, Georgia
February 22, 1865
My dear companion,
I seat myself to drop you a word in answer to yours of the 19th instant which I received yesterday and was made glad by the good news from home.
I am well as usual.
Hope these lines may reach and find you still on the mend.
I have no news this morning to write.
You said that I must name our babe. Well, here it is, if you don’t object. If you do, you must name it yourself and I will be satisfied — it makes no difference with me about a name.
Willie Evalina.
Way up in Pike County where willows do grow,
There lives a little angel no others do know.
It’s Willie Evalina, that sweet little dove,
The Queen of my heart and one that I love.
I will close for the present.
Yours, etc.
W. H. Harden
This is 23rd
I am well as usual today. I learned last night that Sherman has taken Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina, and are marching on. If you have heard from any of the boys, write. I have not heard from Wash since I left home.
W. H. Harden