Camp Reno Breshear City Mar 9

 

            Dear Wife I most write you a few more lines to day I am well I was sargant of the guard saturday to day is monday I will send you the passes that I took in on the countersign the maiger came out and he instructed the guard how to chalenge the grand rounds it was fun I cant tell you I never had so motch fun in my life I got a pas last yesterday in the after noon and went to tun and the box haint come yet there was too men in co G died last night our boys is geting long well del luis is well Billy waters haint come back to camp yet Tom Shaw has come back Lant Spicer is in newerleans sick they sent him back from new york I dont onderstand it yet he sent up here yesterday for his drecsepist list

 

10 Dear Lib I will write some more this morning I sent a paper to you yesterday we have ben out to compny drill we had a knice drill Thomas Peck give me a mackerl last night and I poot it to soke and cooked this morning it did not tast quite as good as they youse to when you fixed them up with boter and cream bot they was / very good you know that wheeler and adline youse to have a good meny hard words wheal thought he was a good cook I dont believe you and I ever will I never would lern to cook if I should be doon here six years I depend on my good wife to doo that for me how good you allwayes did cook for mee dear lib I shant never be so petickler as I was you know dear lib I never found motch falt I was harty to eat and could eat eny thing we youse to get along well and injoid our selvs bot I think we can doo better than we did I most close and eat my diner I dont think we have got motch only some bacon and coffey. well dear Lib I have had my diner and I feal jest as well as as I would if I had the best diner in the world I got a cup of coffey and I had some fish left so I eat bread and fish and drinked coffey I dont poot eny shugar in my coffey I drink it clear it is affle strong stoff dear lib what would I think if I should half to set doon to sotch a table home I would have to be poorty poor bot lib if I live to come home I shant live so high as I did dear lib you would not think I could stand it bot I can and it tast good I am geting fat evry day / you would not know me I know you would not Hirom Berel went dun to the docters this morning I went with the sick list the docters told Hirom that he was sotch an old nervas thing he was jest like a old womin he haint got eny life if he was my man I should poot him back and try him over agane he ses he haint home sick bot I know he is he dont eat eny thing del Luis haint very well yet bot he is geting better evry day I asked him if he wanted eny money and he sed he did so I let him have a doller you can tell his folks he sed he would pay me when he got his pay dear Lib we have got us mosquito bars furnished us they are a knice thing we can fix them up and get onder them and mosquitos cant totch us I laid all night last night without eny thing over me I dont take my cloths of yet I haint took my cloths of to sleep since I come here to this state lib if I should come home I should have to lern how to ondres would you dear help me ondress how couris it would seam to take my cloths of and get in to bed with my dear that would be more curis well dear that time will be fore long my faith is good they say they are fighting to port hodson and Vicksburg if we can whip them up there bot it will be a affle hard fight dear lib you see I have wrote this page very gud / I have to write so fast I cant write very good when I write slow I can write very good there was one of our boys had his picture takeing yesterday and it dont look eny like him dear lib I will have one takeing when we get where I can get a good one I will have one here if we stay here a grait Dear Lib it is eavening O dear Lib I got too letters from you in one invelop and a paper Billy watters got one and I took it dun to him our boys is geting along well ed goody is all most well I had a long talk with our boys I got a affle good letter from you it dos mee more good to get a letter from you than a cup of bean soop would and that is saying a goodeal haint this a big joke dear lib you spoke abought the letter that I wrote to rozill dear lib I did not care eny thing abought it only I did not want you to think that I thought so motch of rozill as I did of you and I dont think you did that is all wright with mee dear lib you spoke abought picking beris on the Hill that hit me write whare I live o want that fun you know you got your dish fool / in a hery dident you bot not eny quicker than you would to night if you was here it would be so quick you would not know it when you spoke abought how you would like to sleep with mee and doo all the work your self that made me little white cock come up in a minit and it haint very small eather you know I could make you give the war hup that don me more good then my soper did I am glad you write jest as you feel I think I could give you the best fock to night I ever give you and I have give you a good meny good ones haint I dear lib you spoke abought my giveing my self up to the rebs dear I dont know as I can blame you I would give most eny thing to come home bot my contry dear lib I am a tru man to my contry you know my ambition if I should do that it would allways be in my mind dear lib I dont blame you eny bot lib when they take mee prisner they will have to have a sword on one side and a gun on the other dear lib I think my life of you and I do of my contry it make the tears come now dear haint this right I am bound to fight / and stickd it threw if it cost mee my life this is my fealing if I can have my helth I am all right dear lib that diner you eat is what don me good dear lib that is the worst of soldireng our bread we get is affle souer it haint a bit good bot lib this sofering is for some thing and I am willing to stand my share of it you nead not feal bad because I dunt I only want to write jest as it is and I will it so let it cut whare it will haint that right dear lib you spoke abought kate going with hofman it is all write when one is around and when the other is he is all right dear lib you are right you and mee did not have eny sotch work it was strait for us when I went you went lib you spoke abought barton runing the old mill you dont say eny thing his runing genet I persume he dos run her on a sligh dont you I dont know as I can think of motch more to write I guess I will write to Charly walch to night I am in the capt tent a writeing I dont get time to write eny thing only in the night this is from your tru and loving Hosbond to my most dearest on earth kiss sis for mee and lots of times for yourself L C Hakes

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