Montgomry Co MD

 Sept 3^th 1861

 

            Dear sister

                                    We wer in line of march last night when I resived your letter but emprove this opertunity of answering it well I never had better times than we have to day we got as much fruit as we wanted and there is some of the best girls out here that ever I saw the Boro girls wold not show along side of them there was one of them gone over to us and ask us if we wold take diner with them and of corse us did we had a good diner I think that we will stay here all the time or till the fruit is don you give a gloris discription of your picknick but you say that you wished that I had been along well I do not for if I had I wold be out on picket gard there is no danger out here we cold stay here all the time if we cold get leaf lieu kennedy and some of the boys has just got 2 sesesionest and 40 head of cattle they say / that they diserted from the sothern army they cannot give eny account of them selfs they tell 200 difernt storys about them selfs but I gues they are lost there road to the chain bridg Capt Stewart has gon to take them to head quarters we will go to our old camp to night well that big fight has not come of yet but will come of some of these days and then we will have a chanse to try what the 11 Reg will do but we have the boys that can fight if they only get at it

                                                                                                                       

well sister I do not know what to right only the boys are all well as usel they wold like to go over to the other side of the potomac so they cold get to see some of the sesesons they are so few here we are not in the same plase that we wer be fore but along the road side last night there was 7 men sent to relive us evry hour we wold be relived and I laid on a plank beside the road when I got up I was laying on the road the plase was so steep that we wold have to crawl up evry 10 minuts / that is the way with a soldiers life he has to take things as they come and we are best harted felows ever you seen you wanted me to tell you if there is eny thing I wanted from home well there is nothing but stamps we cannot get eny here with out trople and if you can I wold like you wold send me some I can get paper but not stamps that is all I need I do not need the stockins but tell Ma that I get plenty to do me I have not put the last pare that you sent me on yet and tell her to give them to some of the rest we have not got our mony yet and do not know when we will get it yet but perhaps this week I have give you all the news only Charly cook is still well and wishes me to send word to ther folks by my letter tell John Johnston to rite and give my best respects to all my frinds tell Maggi stewart to rite and all the rest of the frinds Rite soon and till then I remain your brother

            sis Lyon                                                          

 

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PS Direct the same as before 

 

Dear sister since we came in to camp we have got marching orders and will start maby be fore ½ hour as soon the cannon fires at tennally town they have been fighting for the last 10 hours do not be unesy about me for if this is a fals report you will see by the paper so good by till we see about it rite soon

direct the same as before till then I remain your Affection Brother Samuel Addison

M A C Lyon

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