3^d Brigade (Gen'l Berry) 3^d Division

(Gen'l Kearney) 3^d Corps (Gen'l Heintzelman)

Army Potomac—in the field near

Fair Oaks Station—June 11^th 1862

 

Dear Father

                        Wallace, our Adjt is writing a line to a [torn] in N.Y. and I intend to have him enclose this [torn] letter. I have nothing new to relate having [torn] last Sunday. I am sitting in the [torn] hour being 9 o'clock P.M. and beneath [torn] of a tent I have got put up. Every now & [torn] reports of musquetry &c. break the stillness. Constant artillery practice goes on between our lines of pickets &c, each side trying to prevent the other from throwing up dirt. Some think it will be a month before we get Richmond, others sooner my idea is, that a desperate battle will be fought before 3 weeks, and the thing decided. I hope so, for I live now in a lake of mud, the roads in places as bad as those we travelled at the Capital last February. You would laugh to see us. I enjoy the life amazingly but would like to move on.

                                                                       

Your's Aff.

Fred. 

 

            If you can & think it expedient, I [torn] you would send me a box, of very [torn] cigars and a lb of best Turkish tobacco [torn] such as comes in half bladders tied together. Let Frank get it for me. Give my love to all. Good night

                                                                                               

Your's

Fred

 

J. Fred Pierson

June 11

1862

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