Camp Stevens Lusiany

Jan 24

 

Dear Lib I recieved three leters from you yesterday they laid in newerleans a short time they will come where we bee hereafter there haint no youse of trying to tell how I felt when knew I had got a leter from my dear wife to hear that you was well and net that is the only thing I took 22 this morning to the hospital 10 was excused from duty and the rest for light duty it is so in evry compny I think they will be beter after they get youse to the water I feal beter then I did bot I dont feal well yet they will more dy here with sicknis and will get kild in batle one more has ben berid out of our redgment I hope we shal leave here before hot wether Billy Waters was excused from duty ed gowd has ben sick but has got got beter hirom burlel has got lame legs know the docters told him they thought evry thing aild him he bunks with mee know how glad lib I was to hear from you I dont blame you for thinking I shal come home in the spring bot lib I dont mutch think I shal come I shant onles peace is declard and I dont think it looks motch like it know I dont hear what is going on I know the planters is geting thear nigers / home I dont know bot this state is coming back in to the ounion thar was a niger tried jomped in the bio yesterday his master was after him the wat is ver cold it is the water we drink jest before he got to the edge a cramp cetched him I sopose and he went doon and drounded some of our boys see him dround they had a meeting last night sotch a noise you never herd you spoke a bought meeting to in your leter I think if I was to home I would go to meeting more than I did I dont want to be a beter eny beter man than I was to home I dont want to be eny beter than you are I dont think you want to be eny beter than I am do you I am the same man I was when I was to home when the rebs was throwing shels at us religion did not trouble mee the boys have prer meeting here in camp that crocker that marid haner rarorth osker voorhees and lant spicer and adum houghtailing if they go to heven I dont want to go lib that is the way I think lib I dont want you to be eny beter than you was when I was to home I know you was good anough I dont know bot you will think difrunt abought it that is the way I feal we dont drill eny this fore noon I have finish / a leter I am to father I rote a long leter to him lib I dont now whare you had beter live you had beter go to al crowners if you can dont beg a chance eny whare I think if wheal comes home he never will go back I dont want you to live there suit your self and you will suit mee I think wheal would rote to mee bot he dont know what to rite or say for him self lib you spoke a bought makeing sugar that hit mee right whare I live you spoke a bought [?] bedrom that don mee good bot it would don mee more good if we could meet there know and doo the same thing with you bot lib I haint got eny apetight for eny body els bot you I was talking with one of the 75 boys and he sed thear boys was didling the niger wenches I told him before I would totch one I would cut my you know clost to my bely my god before I would totch one I see comp G fealing of a wench to day it mad mee sick I dont like the nigers as well as I did before I left home and I haited them then you know lib you remember the time miland jane come so ny coming ther one morning in the well rom before we wanted to see him that was a clost thing for us we had a good meny good meny good times there dident we lib 

 

I have ben out to batalion drill what a good drill the generl sed we kep the best line of eny redgment he ever see acrost ditches and over fences and threw thorn onder a galing fire we have got our first lieut under arest for geting drunk I think he will get his discharg bot I dont know this miletary buisness is like a gug handel all on one side I most go on dress perade I think this leter wont go till monday leave hear Dear lib it is sunday in the afternoon I have washed mee all over and poot on some clean clothes I feal some beter lib you nead not send mee eny tea I should like some beaf you can send it in care of colnel Charles C Dewight newerleans. Banks Expiditon 160 C H dont send motch lib lib dident I say in my leter that I did not eat in three dayes on the boat I ment to if did not for I did not eat for three dayes Ed Goody has not got religion not as eny body knows of lib why dont you tell mee how dewight is geting along lib I will send you a lock of my hare if you want mee too bot I think it is a bad sine it would make mee feal bad bot I will if you want it as for charly sending what he did I think it looked very shaler dont you think it did

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