Camp Foster 

Newbern NC

Dec. the 9. 1862

 

My Dear Parrents

 

I now take my pen in hand to answer your kind and welcom letter I received it the 7 and how pleased I was to hear from you and to hear that you was all well I received one from Katie the same time and she said father was over to new Haven and asked hur to go out home Thanksgiving and she said that if she did she should miss one of the lecturs and she said that mary was feeling / bad a bout Henry and she would go some other time we went to roanoke iland last week gone 3 days went on the ocean ware it looked natural there and a rived in newbern once more we are in barracks now mutch better than tents and a great deal warmer to. the Thanksgiving dinner that Jepson was to send has not got hear yet but we had a verry good one as good as we soldiers can expect I should of liked to bin there to enjoyed the Thanksgiving dinner with you and to eat some tirkey and pudding and chicking pie and mince pie they / was good I now tell Herman I am glad if he eat some pudding for me the weather is verry cold hear now the ground freezes nights and pretty cold in the mornings tell Eddy to be a good boy and kiss him for me tell uncle Lyman that I want some oysters that is fresh when I come home and them wont keep and he better eat them up give my love to all Aunt and uncle father Mother sisters and brothers and shear a good part your selfs I hope Henry will get wel and return home once more I am well tuf as a not this is from your Brother Miles L Smith remember me write soon

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