Harrisons Landing Va.

Sunday August 10^th 1862

 

Dear Sister

                        Your letter came yesterday My box has not got here yet but I think it will come all right a great many of the boys have boxes on the way and I think mine will get here sometime. I believe there is a load expected every from New York and I think mine will come with the rest. I am very anxious to get it. We have had soft bread for two days and I believe there is two more rations for us. it is a great thing for us you may well believe. / We have been across the river four day the last week on fatigue building up a breastwork of logs or revetment as it is called I like it about as well as drilling an hour or two and stopping in camp we got green corn over there and had it boiled for dinner, it went tip top. I do not know whether we will go over there tomorrow or not but expect to. It is very hot here through the day so hot it is most impossible to work and the flies are very troublesome they bite all the time and there is any quantity of them they wake us up in the morning biting us on the face and bother us all day. We were paid off Friday and I will put ten dollars in this for Father. The man that was / left with our sick at Lavage Station has got back from Richmond and says our boys are all well and that they are to be released on parole in a few days.

 

I am pretty well now but the climate makes every body weak. I hope this army will not move till my box comes and I do not think it will. It seems as though most every body that was able had got to enlist to make up the new call. I hope Andrew or Milton will not think of coming. when you write to South Royalston tell Milton to go in the Navy first but not to go to war any way You need not think I am discouraged or blue when I write so but I think it is no place for a person I can stand it for my three years easy enough. The last year has passed very fast / I got a paper yesterday with the letter. Tell Sarah I will write to her sometime I do not write any where only home lately.

 

We had new haversacks issued to day, our old ones were pretty well used up. We have nicer ones now than at first. I donot know of any thing more to write. our food is pretty good now that is to what it has been, and I am waiting patiently for cooler weather.

Jerome

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