Camp near Falmouth

Va March 20^th/63

 

Dear Sister

 

                        I received a letter from you the other day and thought I would answer it to day as I have nothing else to do we have got through with the roads we have been making and we have it pretty easy now I have been pretty buissy writeing letters for two or three days when we worked on the road I could not find time to answer all my letters this is the sixth letter I have answered within three or four days I have got two or three more to answer that and then I will be ketched up it is snowing here to day but not very hard 

 

I expect that we shall have to go out on pickket tomorrow. the forth N.Y. Cavelry lay about half a mile from here the Company that was raised in Windham and around there are in that Regt Vol Smith Lon Follick and Buck Hurine are in that Com they come over to our Camp almost every day they had were in a fight the other day up at Keyleys Ford you will probily see an acount of it in the paper they say that that it was the largest Cavelry fight we have ever had we drove them about four miles acrost the rivver and then retreatted back they took quite a number of prisoners they go past our Camp almost every day with a small squad towards head quarters I suppose they belonged / to Stewarts Cavelry they wer the hardest looking set I ever saw their pants and coats were patched with eny kind of cloth I suppose they could get aholt of and patched al to peaces at that they salutted some of our boys as they went past well I must hurry up for it is almost supper time we are going to have bread and butter applesauce and some of that home cheese we are liveing pretty good now our box came about two weeks ago every thing in it was all right we have pan wheet pankackes sometimes we can get an order of our Lieut and go to the Brigade Commissary and buy flour for 5 cents a pound Nelt dor and I bought a ham for ten cents a pound / we can get potatoes when they have them for two cents a pound you wrote that they were going to have an exibition on the Heights and that you were going to sing we wont retreat any more we used to sing that in camp before the battle of Fredrickburgh but sense the retreat I have not heard them sing it next time you write send me some more stamps for I will soon use them up you sent me send me the Catskill paper when you send papers write on them who they are from I get papers without any name on them and I do not know who they are from also some of your letters you when you direct them you do not put on N.Y.S.V. it is put on by the post mailer when you dont put it on dont forget to put it on tell Sumner and Charles I will write to them as soon as I get back from pickket and tell them what I saw out there from your Brother M A Jones

 

how did Jack like his valentine.

 

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correct all bad spelling

I see their is a good deal I wrote

in a hurry

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