Old park Barracks

New York Sunday Nov 23^d 1862

 

Dear Deborah I will now try and write you a few lines so that you may know where I am at present. We left Auburn tuesday about half past four oclock we rode all night in the cars and got into Albany about 5 the next morning we got breakfast there that prepared for us by the ladies of that city it cossisted of bread & butter one slice & two slices of bread and a very little meat cut up very fine like mince meat and plenty of good coffee / we staid there about two hours & a half then we crossed the Hudson river where we took the cars for New York we started about 8 Oclock from Albany and rode about seventy miles when we stoped and our rations for dinner was given us it was boiled ham steamed beef and bread some that we brought from auburn we staid there about an hour when we started again on our journey we arrived in new york about 8 Oclock at night then we had to forward march about a half a mile to the park then get supper and get ready for bed or rather boards Beds is not a part of a soldiers fare we were stowed in pretty thick for the first night and day there was two Regiments got in there / that day a head of us and a Rifled Batery from Rochester we found in the Batery Company James & Henry Vosburgh and some other boys from Newark we are all a going in the same Division under Gen Banks when we do go. it is expected that the 111^th Regiment will be here to join us soon since we came here we have had a little different living than we had at Auburn. we have for breakfast potatoe soup with a little beef in it and two small slices of bread Dinner we have boiled beef one potatoe and the same of bread Supper we have bread & meat or bread and cheese but no buter to day we had beef soup for dinner with plenty of sumer / savory in it but we will not starve on that I guess

 

            The day that we came here it was so dark cold & stormy & foggy that we could not enjoy the scenery along the road at all we had the river on our right all of the way down here the rail road runs right along by the side of the river all of the way down here Some times we would be running over the water then through the mountain so dark that you could not see anything in the car the road is tunnelled right through the sollid rock some places rock over our heads and all around us then again it will run on the edge of the mountain 40 ft above the

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