June 10th, 1863 (a Gooch Letter)

During his time serving in Company I of the 27th Maine, Private Charles W. Gooch wrote over fifty letters to his wife Julia, back home in Kennebunk, Maine. The following is a letter he wrote to her on the 10th of June, 1863. I've transcribed it as written, with lack of punctuation and spelling errors included.
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            Camp at Chantilly June 10th 63
                     My Dear Wife
with pleasure I take this oppertunity
to inform you that I am well and
hope you enjoy the same blessing
                    I received a beautiful
letter from your hand by last
evenings mail for the same pleas
except my thanks
you wanted me to write when
I thought we should come home
​it is A hard question I think
to answer correctly but I will
give my opinion on the subject
as you have solisited it and I cannot
avoid any thing you request
I think by the 25th if nothing
happens to prevent we shall be
moveing towards home the most
of the Boys think we shall go
by the 20th and I do not kno
​

but what we shall I wish we
might and in fact I wish we
could start today      I understand
the Col, said that he should
expect orders to go any time after
this week but I do not kno as
he or any body elce knows
Isaac thinks we shall start
in one week from monday
but at the longest if we are both
well and nothing happens I hope
the time will soon pass off
prehaps by the time the moon
fulls again I shall be with you
to admire the beauties of nature
whitch you pictured so lovely
in your in your last I hope
I shall so we can set down by
our windows and take the
hours away or walk out and see
the lovely fields clothed with this
verdue of green

but we do not kno what is lost
prehaps it is for the best that
we are not at home to day for
prehaps if we were at home to day
something it might not be so
well for us but I think it would
be more agreable to me
and I think it would be to you
but it is best for anyone to recon=
=sile them selfs to their fate if
they can and hope for the best
for it is useless to borrow trouble
about any thing and I want you
to make your self just as easey
as you can I do not want
you to sease to think of me and
I do not think you would under
any consideration but I do not
want you to feel to uneasey about
me for you cannot help me
​any and it is worse for you

I wish I had some good news to
write to you but I have not and
I think I had better close for I
do not think you will like this
letter very well but I hope you
will not think that I have not
done the best I could
I have wrote what I thought
on the subject and if it turns
out better I shall be as glad as
any body but I do not want
to please my self with fancies
that I do not think I shall
realise so please excuse all mistakes
and keep up good courage
and I will come home as soon as I can
so hopeing soon to see you I close
from your affectionate and loveing hus
                                             C
             God bless my Dearest Wife
is the wish of her loveing husband

NOTES:
(pg 1-2) Charles writes about returning home - originally, the men believed their terms expired on the 10th of June, 9 months following their enlistments on 10 Sept '62, but it was instead based on the mustering in date of the 30th of Sept. They remained in Chantilly until receiving orders on 24 June to move to Arlington and prepare to return home.
(pg 2) ​"Isaac" is Sgt Isaac Emery of Kennebunk, who was the brother of Charles' wife Julia.