Fredericksburg Va May 26^th 1865

 

Dear Mother

                        With pleasure I received your kind letter to day & now I will answer it I am very glad to hear your health is yet good I am pretty well this morning with the exception of a bad head ache you need not be alarmed about my enlisting in the regular Army if I haint satisfied with army liveing I never will be do you think I would be a soldier in times of peace not by a long shot I have given my country the best part of my life in war times so you need not worry about my going in the army again tell carrie she is a / d—d fool that is the best I can say for her. it is a raining like all possessed this morning & makes it quite uncomfortable. When you write W^m H again ask him why he dont write to me yes I hope to get home before long & then I shall declare war with the ducks for I long to get some. We had a very hard march from Richmond here but we are all right now we are quartered in houses in the city there is four of us has a room about 6 feet square & so we are very comfortable I can get all the cherries I want they sell them at 30^cts a basket I can get all I want for nothing I wish you had a bout five bushell of them for they are so nice. When I get home I shall / have about 5 acres all set out in fruit trees. there is agoing to be a good many peaches & apples this summer so if I stay here I can get all the fruit I want I expect the first year after I get home will go pretty tough with me for cold weather does completely use me up. this city has been badly used up for their is not hardly a house but what has a cannon ball through it. but there is plenty of buissiness agoing on here even the citizens chicken coop is often visited by soldiers but Mother can you blame a soldier for doing so for they charge so much that the boys can not buy any there is know danger of any of the 19^th Regt a going into the regular Army for our old Regt has stood the brunt of battle to often to want any more of it / that 3 dollars you sent to me I have not received yet & perhaps never will give my respects to all of my inquireing friends does Noyes live in Trempealeau yet as I want to write to paul & mary I will close hopeing to hear from you soon

           

your Affectionate son Charley

 

Dear Brother

            I will now answer your letter I am glad to hear you are doing so well & I hope you will continue so know Paul Ill wont never go in to any regular Army I have had enough in war times at fighting let alone me being a soldier when there is not any fighting to do I will bet some of the rebs has hard usage from my old rifle for I used to feed them yankee pills as fast as I could load & fire

                       

Well no more write soon

to your Brother

Charley

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