Sherman Stickney

 

            wall Marm as I have just been writing a few words to dad I will try to do the same by you but now if I was only rite there in the old kitchen this morning I think I could do it a great deal better than I can here although there is no one here to bother me for I am in the tent here all alone but then I think if I was there I could think of more than I can here     wall Mother I have just eat my diner so now I will try to finish the letter perhaps you would like to know what I had to eat so I will tell you we had potatoes and meat and coffee boiled beef and bread and molasses it was a little better than common for this fournoon we got an order from an oficer and went to the Comisary and bought the potatoes and the molases so I we had quite a diner but then I have lived very well this winter the most of the time for I have been very lucky in getting stuff from the Comisary such as potatoes and onions and flower flour and molases for it is jeneraly rather of of a hard thing to git any thing from the Comisary only what is issued to you

 

Mother you wanted to know how many fights I had been in this last sumer so I just ran it over in my mind as I sat here I can think of ten twelve and how many more times I have been exposed to bullets I cant tell you for a good deal of the time when we are on Picket in sight of the Ref Rebs they are shooting all the time when ever they can see you and when they git to some sassy we jest return the compliment some times we have quite an ingagement and at other times we are on good terms so we exchange papers and other things one day I picked up an old / pair of boots that some one of our boys throwed throad away and took them out on Picket to let some farmer have them for some milk or chickens some thing and I had them on post with me and one of the Rebs saw me have them across the river and he wanted to buy them and would not take no for an answer but what he must have them so he gave me four dollars worth of tobaco for them so I let him have them Mother who be you goind going to have to live with you this with you this sumer I should have some one that had a woman so that you can have some help as well as Father I shouldent let Sherman carry on the farm unless he would git him a woman and you know that aint the Stickneys mak so I think that you had better keep Lucy and Ira again this sumer if they will stay I supose it is rather dull times

 

Mom tis rather loansome there some days isnt it since Cora went away from there I should think it would be if I was in your place I would try to have Lucy by me as she and I used to you tell her for me that I should think she was smart that she couldent do what she would ask an old woman to do but mom I guess I shall have to close by bidding you good bye mom if you have not sent that box just put in me a pair of gloves if you have got them but if you have sent it all the same for I have got me a good pair of leather gloves and th and perhaps I can git a furlow before next fall so as to come home and git them                 this from your Son

to his Mother                          W^m W Stickney

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