Camp near Brandy Station

Vergina Dec the 28 1863

 

Dear cosion Moses as i have nothing to pass off the time i thought i wod rite a few lines to let you no how i like Soildering for uncle sam as for my part i like it as well as a cat loves hot sope this show is a grate thing for som but not for a poor privit Mos you stay at home and be contented and i will to when i have ben hear a litle longer and when i get out of this show the very furst man ask me to enlist a gane i will knock his nose so that the sap will start and i will ask / him if he has ever ben a Soilder in the armey of the potomac if he ses yes give him one more and tell him to go a gane if he likes but keep a way from me wall a nuff of this a bout my helth it wod be first rate if i had not got the goverment shits hooked on to me i have had them a bout 3 weeks but i hant down sick but i have left and come back to my compney i dont like driving team in the winter i have to close for it getting dark so good by for this time i hope to hear from you soon

 

yours truly

Orin A Montgomery

good as new /

 

Derregd Wallen

i recived your welcom leter in dew time was glad to hear from you and to hear that you was all well my helth ant very good at present but i am on the gane now and i hope theas few lines al will find you all well

 

Deck you wanted me to tell you whair jorge is Deck i will tell you all i no a bout him i shood of rote to you before but i wanted to wait and see if i cold not hear from him before i rote to you but now i will rite i think jorge is taken prisner he went a crossed the rapidan with the compney and was with the compney till they recross the rapidan the boys ses the last they see of him he was setting by a fier / it was in the nite and i think he must of drop to sleep and the dambs rebs picked him up he did not do eny duty in the compney on the acount of his thum but that was on the gane and doing first rate this is all i can tell you at present a bout him but when i hear from him i will let you no as quick as i hear from him

 

now a bout the box com all rite and the things was sold i bote his boots and the litle judg jorge was owing some in the Compney and it went to pay that jorge was a good harted boy and if he wanted eny money eny of the boys wood let him have it for they new he wood pay them i dont no how much the box com to but i will find out and let you no

 

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Deck rite to me and let me no what the box cost how much maple suger was in the box i think it want all sold out i did not get a chance to by much for they wod not sell when i was thair i dont no why my love to you all tell all of the to rite and i will answer them

 

Good by all Oct

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