14^th Camp Loudon Valley

 

Dear Mother

                        I finished a good long letter to you last night but I have to get up to roll call so I can put a few lines more you must not worry if you do not hear from me quite so often I caught quite a cold yesterday on picket have a sore throat to pay pay for it but shall not give in to it W^m Stickney went to the hospital Sherman Paddock is not verry well all the rest are about as usual we have very cold weather seems as if could never feel warm again Robert Allison is first rate as all the other boys Charlie Penfield has a lame leg just now there has been ten deaths in the 20^th since leaving NH /

 

G.S.P.

 

tell father I will be home to help him plant in the spring

 

I must close no pay yet and no prospect of it short of writing paper envelopes money and every thing here

                                   

tell Francis to write

                                   

you can tell him I got

 

a letter from him and cant get time to answer half I get cant you send the weekly Mercury once in a while Good bye till my next

                       

from your son in haste

George S Palmer

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