Portsmouth Va November the 13^th 1862

 

Dear Mother

                        With very much pleasure I received the butter yesterday and was very glad to get it but I am a afraid that you have robed your self the expressage did not cost me one cent they dont allways charge the soldiers without they have a big box I wrote to Mr Danils yesterday We have not got our pay yet I hope we will soon the monitor is in sight to day We are having nice summer weather here now I hope that it will continue so have you heard from Will lately When you write to him tell him that I want him to answer my letter you need not send me any more postage stamps for the present for I bought some with that money. has mary got home yet you tell her that I want her to write to me as soon as you get this letter. you asked me in one letter you wanted to know if I had good luck passing New York bills yes any kind of mony goes here. how does may get along tell her to speak a good word for me. Danford Houghton is getting better. did Lewis Giles folks say that they was agoing to send him some cheese I hope they will for you know that he wants some of my butter tell grand Mother that I dont think much of them men that is staying back and sticking all of their courage in their breeches pockets I dont suppose that Dave and Jo would go to war if they knew that their comeing would stop this war has may hurd from William Burns lately how does he get along has lud Lackman got well yet so he is fit for duty I hope that this / war will soon end I will stay untill it ends if it dont in six years how does john brights folks get along how many head of cattle have you got to winter have you got any chickens yet has father got his corn all husked I would like to help him first rate When you write again have father write me a few lines tell may that I wrote to her last is there many prairie chickens around this fall I wish that I had a couple by the neck is your father agoing to come and stay with you this winter if he does give my best respects to him I am on gard to day Say Mother after you get my pay you have a likeness taken from the one you got of me for Will he wants one to see how his humbly brother looks if this winter dont end this war I will get a furlough and come home next spring Does Dave and Jo buy wheat this fall what is father working at is he at work in the shop tell paul that I want him to write to me again tell Ann that she must not think hard of me because I have not wrote to her does Beth grow any how does cynthia get along does she grow any did you raise many potatoes in the garden this summer how many plums did you have I suppose you had a good many is old shep alive yet I dont believe they can kill him if they should try has father got any hogs to fat this winter our captain has been sick but he is better how does mose get along how many new houses has there been built since / I enlisted have you haveing much cold weather and snow yet this fall I will advise you to live where you are for all the places I have seen since I left for all I use to hate the place Lewis giles is writeing to his folks today We are both writeing on the same desk tell may to write me a few lines and put it in with yours tell Will bright that I would like to have a letter from him firstrate does Noyes work his farm this summer in what regiment has the trempealeau county volenteers gone in have they left the state yet does father get his wood down out the bottoms this winter Who keeps school this winter does paul and martha go is mary a going this winter does the steamboats run yet I guess that the ice is [?] by this time What county in Michigan does your sister live say Mother there is one thing more I want that is a map I want one to see where I am has father comenced plastering yet I hope he will get it done have you got your new carpet down yet are you agoing to put it down have you got Suke calf yet has uncle fred gone home yet I wrote to him about four weeks ago and he haint answered it yet I guess he dont intend to that butter makes me think of you every time I look at you dont know how thank full I be to you for it it haint every soldier that has got a kind father and Mother to send to him when he is away to the war I / hope that we will get pay before long Butter down here fifty cents for old firkin butter tobacco is one dollar a pound milk is five cents a pint and every thing is just the same boots is from ten to twelve dollars a pair I think that I have done pretty well this time you will have to lay down and rest a half of the time now dear Mother I want you to write me a long letter Write all of the news give my best respects to all of the inquireing friends have father write me a few lines and Mary to write as soon as you get this

                                                                       

please receive this from your

Affectionate son Charles C Kribs

Co B 19^th Independent Regimental

Wisconsin Volenteers to his Mother

Mrs W^m Kribs of Trempealeau

Trempealeau County Wisconsin

                                                                       

Write soon

Write soon

C C Kribs

 

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Charles C Kribs Co B 19^th

reg WV

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