Camp Nevin Nov 8 1861

           

My dear mother

i sit down to let you know that i am prety well now but i have been sick for some days i hope theas fiew lines may find you all in good health i was hapy to hear from you to day i got a letter from dan to day you want to know how i like my grub i like it firstrate we get crackers and fat pork we leave lye on the ground yet we hant got our blankets yet and only one shirt and one pair ove draurs and one pair ove pants for all this our boys are all in / good spirits and anxious to get at the rebles whitch i think they will get a chance in a very fiew days they is a great many handy here they is 10 thousend ove them marching on us now as fast as they can when they get here we will can tell you something a bout pouder and bulets if we live to see the end ove it our spies says that they crosed green river on yesterday i think that centuckey will be the battle ground ove a great many batles we have only twenty two thousend union troops here now 

 

Mr Harvy is well and is still captain i like camp life firstrate now i am now 7 hundred and 50 miles from home and it dont seem to me to be a way a tall this is as nice a country as i ever saw it tis lovle as a flour but very poor buildings we are kept very close in camp they was a soldier poisened in one ove the other camps the other day he eat his diner at a farm house and died the same evening we have to be careful what we eat and where we eat Dan shearer is well and out on picket / gard he gets a long very well and John Boyle is well all ove them is well as i hant mutch time i shall stop you speak a bout ink we cant cary it with us and we cant get it here

           

write soon as you get this letter

           

tell al to write

           

i have no chance to write hear

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