December the 27^th 1862

 

            Dear Cul I seat myself this wet and bad morning to let you know that I am well and all the rest monroe is complaining some he says he eat to much well Cul there was heavy cannonading yesterday your father time the firing they fired a about five a minute they fired sixteen for a while we could hear the musketry last night after the cannon stoped then about one oclock we got orders to cook tow three days rashions and be ready to start at daylight this morning but daylight has come and we have no orders yet though we may have in ten minutes know body knows any thing about what we will we have heard this morning that we had tore one division of the yankees all to pieces but we do not know any thing about the truth of it well Cul if we do have to go and have fight and I get killed I think I am prepared and if we never should meet in this world again I hope we will meet in the one to come Cul I dont expect you will like to hear me say any about being killed but no one knows when they might be killed and I thought if I was that it would be some satisfaction for you know that I thought I was prepared but I hope I never / will have to fight the people is in fine spirits they all seem to think we will get home in time to make a crop I do not how that will be I hope it will be so well Cul my coat fits me as well as it could the sleeve is a most to long none to hurt my suspenders is just the right lenth and they could not have come in a better time I had been wearing Nathan steadmans for about a week I have been ofered ten dollars for my new coat already and i never have had it out of the tent I believe I could put it on and wear it out through the Regiment and get twenty or twenty five dollars I have no use for but one of them if they offer me a prety good price I will sell some one of them Cul you said you wanted me to send you word if i wanted any thing i do not need any thing at all Cul you said you wanted to know how we was messed off well Cul monroe Rob Willy and myself we get along fine well Cul we have had four days rest from Drill and we thought we would put us up a brick chimney and we pitched in and halled brick and put us up a nice little chimney and we can live nearly as well as if we was in a house if that was all i would int mind it it is staying away from you and the children that hurts me as to living out here i think I could stand that very well i never have suffered any yet with cold yet and we have had more / to eat than we knowd what to do with we have more to eat now than we can eat to save our lives before it spoiles we have not touched any thing we draw in nearly two weeks we have been living to high for a while we all eat to much you all have sent us sugar and salt and we have plenty of both we draw both sugar and salt and monroe can buy it at ten cents a pound and molases at thirty cents a gallon Cul there was a man hung yesterday and one shot in sight of our tent but i did not go to see them there was a good many of the boys went Cul I will have quit I expect we will have to go we leave                       

 

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