Camp Morton

Indinoplis Ind.

Oct 7^th 1862

 

Dear Miss it is with the greatest of pleaure that I sit down to write you a few lines to let you know how I git along I am well at presant hoping when this comes to hand it may find you injoying this same great blesing well beckey I am at camp Morton Indinoplis we have bin here abought three weaks and I hant bin out of this camp since I have bin here but maby we will be home before long / the report is that we are a going to be discharged for the rebeles say that they ant a going to exchange any more prisnors they are a going to hoist the black flag and they agoing to take any prisners that is the report here in camp if we hant discharged we will git a 90 day furlough they say that is shure they say beckey I want you to write to me and tel me if Mary Gos is at youre hous if she is thare her that I came out to camp and hant bin out of camp She sent to letters by / for to of the boys out at camp Jo Runnels and I couldant git out to take them to them tel her that I broke them open and red them and tore them open up tel her that I never broke them open until this morning tel her that I would have wrote her a letter but that I had forgot her name tel her not to think hard of me for not writing and you musant think hard of me for not writing to you for I hant had time to write to anny body I have wrote three letters home and hant herd a word from / home since I left

david T Brooks he is well I dont know whether you know whether you kowed him or not I believe that I will bring my letter to a cose Good by

 

  to Miss Beckey Yong

   From Quincy A Whitham

 

Write soon soon soon

Write soon as you git this

 

            When this you see

            Remember me and think

            Of one that thinks                                         

            of the                                                            

                                                                                    

            My pen is bad                                                 

            My ink is pale

            My love to you

            Shal never fail

 

dont forgit me

and write if you

proper see

direct to Quincy A Whitham

Co K 12 Reg of

Ind Vol

Indinoplis Ind

to Beckey Yong Write soon

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