Camp California Alexandria

Jan 27/62                     Virginia

 

Dear Father Sisters and brother

i write these few lines to you hoping to find you in good health as this leaves me at preasent we have signed the pay rool on Sunday so we are paid this morning I shall send 20 dollars the rest i owed for other things the first was 2$ for the indiarubber blanket nect was 1$ the old sutler that was in Staten Island the next is 10 shillings for the cap and 2 shilling for tobacco which i borrowed from one of the men and 10 shillings which i browed in Washington for the gloves so that is all so i have not much left i believe we shall get 15$ month from the 1^st of January for Coporals we have had verry bad weather here this last 3 weeks 

 

i wish you would send me some mo stamps and paper and envelopes and tobacco and the other things that i wrote in my last i received the Murcury on last Friday i did not expect it so you can send this weeks murcury the papers are always a day or two behind the letters

 

so write and let me know if you received the money as soon as possible

 

P.S we are going on picket in about a week be sure and send the things as soon as possible write as soon as you receive this and let me know if you received the money a good many of the men gave the money to the Captian to deliver to Adams Express office in Alexandria / to forward to New York

 

in the next send me some stamps and paper and this weeks Murcury i have nothing more to say particular

 

there are 73 men in the Company out of that theres only 30 doing duty the rest being sick or something the matter with them

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