Sunday October 5^th 1862

Hospital at Chester Pa

 

Dear Annie I take my pen to try to answer your last kind letter which I received with much pleasure to hear from you I would have wrote before now but I have been sick for three weeks we left Camp Moffitt at Baltimore and marched to a place called Franklintown about 6 miles from Bal^to we went there on friday and on Saturday our company was put on pickett duty I never felt better than I did on Saturday and Sunday till toward evening when I was taken sick I got some medicine from the docktor the next / morning and staid in my own tent along with my friends till the Regt. was orderd to move and I not being able to march to Bal^t I had to go to the hospitall it was a school house the Reg^t left on friday morning and we dident get away till monday when we got to Baltimore we stoped at the union Releief for the soilders there was a good many there and we were put up in the third story in a miserable appartment we got there about noon on monday and left about three Oclock the next day we got aboard the cars for Frederick I had a hard time of it in the cars on that trip we were in the very worst kind of freight cars with / nothing but a few rough boards to sit on I was so sick I could not sit any scarcely I spread out my overcoat on one of the benches and laid down but the cars like to shook me to death before we got to our journeys end the train stopped at last and we all got out and had to walk about ¾ of a mile back and when we went back the Reg^t had left and moved farther on so we all had to go back to the cars we got aboard again and went on about a mile to monoccacy junction where our Reg^t was encamped we got to camp about midnight after a ride of about 60 miles we were about three miles from Frederick City the Rebels had been all around here and our camp was lying nearly / of the offall of the cattle they had kiled while they were there Some of our boys found some Rebel trophies one young man an old friend of mine found a rebel razor there was severeall things picked up I was very sick with the typhoid fever all the time we were here I was in the hospitall tent all the time when the Reg^t was orderd to move away the sick were all sent to the frederick hospitall it was full of sick and wounded soilders both union and Rebels we were sent from there to Chester this is a fine place here I get as good attendance here as I could any place I havent taken any medicine since I came here and I feel prety well only I am very weak yet I hope this letter may find you all well this comes with my love to you and all the rest of the family tell Sallie I will write to her soon no more at presant but remain your affectionate unkle George W. Hamilton

 

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