Camp Pierpont                       

Feb the 15^th 1862

 

            Dear Sister

                                    Your most welcome letter was received with plesure I now sit down to answer not knowing when I will finish this for there is nothing of intrest going on in camp to day only loud cheering over the grate victory our troops have won. it is Fort Donnaldson. if they keep on this way I think that this war will not last long. I received 2 letters from Johnston Mcaulay from Port Royal S.C. and was never favored with a better letter than he writes. I think that he is one of the best young men that ever I was acquented with. You spoke about writing to Charley Cook / use your plesure but I think it wold be all right.

 

            I was down to see Charley yesterday he is well.

 

            O how I wish that they wold move us out of this mud hole of a place. I love to be a soldier but rely I do not like to be in the sacred soil this time in the year you ask me severl times what D.D.S. in D^r Flemming name was for well it is for D^r Dentaly, Srgent, he is a quack Dentist. you wanted to know all about this Company. Well they have got one of the best men living for ther Cap^t and just the same can be sayd about ther Lieu^t and the men are a set of the best of men. You are persnly actquented with some of them well the rest are just the same as mery a set of fellows as can / be found in the army of the Potomac or eny other army You can just depend on what I say about them you might well be glad to say that your brother Add is a soldier and belongs to C. D. 11^th Regt Penna. R V^ol Core and I will never be asamed to own that I belong to the Reserve C of Penna. for it is a distingui^d Division in the sight of the Grand Army of the Potomac, but I have got tired gassing about our Selvs so I will chanse the subject.

 

            I will close till tomoro as this is supper time and I have not got it redy. it will consist of boild beef and beans, bread butter, coffee ham and other things to numers to mention realy I never lived better in my life, but it cost a good deel to keep a going from one day to another 

 

            Sabbath day Feb the 16^th 1862

dear Sister I commenced this letter yesterday, and did not finish it for I thought that I might get another letter from home or have something els to write about but I find that news are about as scarse as they ware yesterday. I have not got eny word from Ant Elve's folks since I got that letter from you and Ruth. Miss M^cbride [?] just want me to write she has gone out of the Union and wants to come back. we will let her alone a while I think that she will not secede again the boys are all well I do not feel well to day but it is the vaxnation that is operating I have got a prety pusy [?] arm. I will close write soon

                                                                                   

Your brother Add

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