4 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Charles Miller. Comes with cover addressed to Mrs. Mary B. Miller, New York, N.Y., with 3 cents rose George Washington postage stamp and C.D.S., Harper's Ferry, Va., June 13, 1863.

Camp Barry, [Va.], June 13th, [1863]

Dear Mrs. Boo Hen,

Although I have received several letters this week, I have not yet heard anything concerning the most important one I ever sent you, that of Sunday last containing $12 which I had saved out of my half month's pay after settling everything, with everybody & saving enough to carry me through until next pay day. I sincerely hope it has not been lost as I had intended that money to pay you for the knife, the ham, the cakes & to purchase several little things for me. If the amount had been anyway large I should have sent it per Adams Express where they give you a receipt for the full amount and if lost by any chance on its transit the one who sends it looses nothing. I believe I wrote you in my last that Platt was sick. Since then he has been growing worse every day and yesterday he thought seriously of going home again, however he will not go home as yet I think, but go out in the country to Halltown where his particular friend Lieut. [Frederick] Shonnard is with Co. K. Yesterday he had symptoms of typhoid & had the pneumonia so that he could not draw a long breath, a combination called typho-pneumonia, one of the worst forms under which that cursed fever can possibly appear. This morning he feels somewhat better & I hope he will be able to bear the ride to H. Town where they propose taking him the first thing after breakfast. His sickness leaves me monarch of all I survey. I have now full command of the Company & it will do me more good as schooling than anything I have yet experienced since I came out. Yesterday we were inspected by the Inspector General of the 8th Army Corps, an old man with the whitest kind of hair, his beard & moustache & whiskers were of the same color, and his moustache of exactly the same texture as Gen. Harvey Brown. He resembled him somewhat, only he was taller & a little better looking. His name is Steinbach and he has seen service in the Prussian Army, but from his conversation everyone thought that he was an Englishman. Now I will tell you what he said about the regiment, when all the officers were assembled around him after parade. Gentleman, said he, I have inspected all the regiments in Gen. Rosecrans, in Gen. Sherman's, in Gen. Sedgwick's & in Gen. Schenck's Corps, among others, several regiments of Regulars and this regiment surpasses everything I have yet seen during the last two years since I have been an inspector. Gentleman, it will be with the extremest pleasure that I will make such a report at head quarters. From the Col. down to the privates I wish my thanks to be expressed. I have seen today a regiment which may be called clean, the appearance of men, the arms, the brass, the boxes, the knapsacks & in fact everything could not be surpassed in any country or in any regiment in the field. He then wished the officers to say this to the men & to thank them from him. You can imagine how proud your Pip felt when our company of which I was in command received special praise from him as the neatest & the best looking out of the whole regiment, but I have said enough so good bye till next time. Charles. This letter came out of a larger grouping of Charles P. Miller's letters that I had so the ID is guaranteed. Very well written letter.