Brashear City feb 15/63.

 

Sunday afternoon my Dearest Lib I had a few moments time so I will start a letter I begin to feel natcherel my helth is geting better I hope dear these few lines will find you the same there haint nothing knew I rote you a letter last wednesday we have had knapsack inspection and I have soad the stripes on my coat to day if it was sunday we draud bread yesterday I think we shal live agane I wrote a letter to normon hill yesterday I was to capten Vaughan tent last night till 11 oclock they wanted mee to play youker with them so I plaid I dont want you to say a word to barb they had whisky to drink and they wanted mee to drink with them dear lib I want you to apresiate what a good man you have got I told them I never had drinked and I never would a man has got to have a good mind to keep from drinking bot dear I never will drink one drop in the world as long as my name is hakes our pickets took too rebs cavelry horses and all the other morning our pickets has took some prisners before we are building pontoons bridges here know / we shal have some fun fore long when Brown come from Wellsville he brought him a big chunk of dried beef and it is good you can send mee some beef and a big can of boter and lots of perserves lib you can send mee a jack knife in a paper send mee one paper a weak a weakly I think it will come all right I changed my clothes yesterday and washed mee good I wished I could of ben in the old bedroom we youse to have some good washes there dident we lib and sometimes we done something besides wash I think lib I could do my part wonce know do you think you could I guess you could we will try it in a little while Dear Lib it is tuesday night and I haint fineshed you letter yet I went on sergant of the guard last night and I come of to night and I recieved too big letters from you and too papers one letter was wrote Feb 1 the other 28 Jan O dear lib these is dredful good letters well lib I will tell you what a knice game a niger tried to come on our gun boat we have got too gun boats on a three day cruse and the rebs knew if they coul get our other gunboat they could shell us out and capture all our provisions so they sent a niger to tell us that the rebs had a peace of ertillery and fore or five men and our gun boat could take them prisner so our gun boat went up very careful and the first thing / the rebs throud too solid shot in to our boat they had three peaces of artillery and a hol redgment our men backed up and sheld them out they intended to take our boat and then run doon and give us fits but our men was to cuning for them we have got the niger and I guess they will shoot him there was another niger tried to come the same game on our men and our men shot 14 boulits in to him the first thing that is the way the nigers youse us some of them is friends there is hunderds of them coming in too our lines evry day we are a going to have a rany night I think I shant know motch abought it after I get to bed you take notice I call it bead Dear lib you rote mee some good letters you sed I rote you a good letter I think I can write a better letter then I could once I wrote morn a fool sheet and then I did not write then half what I wanted to you sed you had not got eny letters from mee dear lib I know I have wrote as often as eny one in camp the boys ses I am writeing all the time you sed you was a going to make some mins pies you can bet your life I wish I had some bot lib I have got so I can make a good meal out of bread and coffy and poor coffy at that I am geting so I like oisters very well we can get them here for a peny a peace in the shel we traided off too boxes of hard tacts and got five hondard in the shel it maid us a good meel I bought some last night and had / I got a dosen and it maid anough hirom and leroy and mee I wish you could taisded of it I had some hard tacts and I broke them all up fine and was good if I did make it if I had some botter it would tasted better I had rice for soper I have got sick of it it haint got up in good shape our men is catching fish they got one to day it would way 36 pound it would was a cat fish you spoke abought charly finding falt with barb I know when I was there I thought she yoused a goodeal of money you sed you thought you did not yous motch dear lib I think so to and evry thing of you for it I know you are affle saving if you want I dont know what I should doo you know what I want I persume leroys wife wont have a peny left when he comes home good knows I think I shal want that money and so will you there is lots of the boys that youses a doler a day to live cant live on sotch living I dont spend a cent I am bound that my famly shant sofer when we come to old age I know I have got a dredful good woman you dont know how motch I doo think of you you allwayes yoused mee well and liked me when I did not yous you well bot I think it is all for the best dont you because I know I think the more of you know for it dear lib I know you dispostion know and I and I know it is good 

 

good morning lib I have red one of yur papers threw this morning it dos mee good to read a new york paper I had a peace of fried pork coffy and bread for breackfast it is plesant hear to day blackbery bushes is blowd out and orange trees and there is lots of flours we sent a affle looking valentine to bil chase las weak we sent it to sam stiles to hand to him I think it will be a big joke on him dear lib you spoke in your letter what good times we youse to have it made mee laugh when I red that I lost more then you did I will give it up bot I think it is curis how you could loose so motch of it what I lost you gained dident you bot we was very lucky you spoke in your letter if I liked our fifth sargant I think he is a good felow he has ben sick you thought he was makeing big calkulations that is true there is meny slip between the cup and lip he is dredful sory he came he ses he would ben sleeping with her know there is a good meny in the same fix dear lib you spoke abought my beeing good for a boy I did not think you would be willing that suited mee I can get up / a big one I think I have got the charge laid up know I feal it once and while I know it is a big one and I will save it for a boy I will asure you that eny one els shant get it lib the nigers did not bring back my cloth I should not let them had them bot I had more bread then I waned so I let them go I shal do my own washing hear after. lib I wish you would tell mee how mutch money abe sent home abe and mee gets a long first best he has had a hard cold lately he dont never let mee see his letters I should like to se them bot I wont ask him to see them I dont know bot the girles tell him not to let mee see them lib do you remember the time when abe moved doon and worked for wheal you went down and helped rozill you know come doon one eavning and see you rozill was in ledges room playing youker and we was playing whist and you got the game did you not capt Vaughan is affle good sence coten went away lib I am glad you did not go to the spelling school I am thinking of you and I want you to think of mee tell rozill I will write to her jest as quick as I get time lib I want you to keep on sending mee writing paper from hos                                                                                                                                   

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