Camp near Lenoir's Station Tenn Nov 9^th 1863

 

Dear Mother

 

I have received your letter of Oct 19^th. I ought to have answered it before. My last letter was written when we were at Loudon. I sent it by Sergeant Cooper of our company who has gone home on a furlough and he was to put it into the post office. Since writing to you our forces have withdrawn from the other side of the Tennessee river and we have been ordered into winter quarters at this place. That was very agreeable news to us and so we we commenced stockading our tents. We have been very busy at this besides our guard duty so that I have not had much time to write. My tent mates this winter are Joseph Haskell William Dunn and a fellow by the name of George Haven. We have just got our tent fixed up so that we can live quite comfortable. We have got a fire place in it built of logs and mud so that we are quite cozy. This morning I came in from picket on the Tennessee river. We could see the rebels on the other side but they did not fire on us nor we on them. We had some talk with them. They invited us to come over and take / supper with them and stay all night. We asked them if they would let us come back again they said they would but we concluded not to accept the invitation. We had a squad of convalescents come to our regiment the other day and among them was Mr Wood we were all surprised to see him. He left Baltimore the 7^th of October. He is looking well and I hope he will be able to stand it now. I received a letter from Mary at the same time I received yours. Yesterday I received a letter from Charles Ball and shall answer it soon. Before this time you have heard all about the fight at Blue Springs so I need not say anything more about that. But I must close my letter as it is after tattoo and we are to have an inspection tomorrow at ten oclock. I am well and so are the rest of the Harvard boys. My love to father and yourself. Good night.

 

From Your son

E. W. Stacy

 

P.S. I enclose a few morning glory seeds. They grow wild here.

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