this will haft to do both of you

for this time for i hant

got time                      

write                                                                            

    soon                                                                                     

        and dont                                                                                                  

forget it    

                   

to write            hardly

                                                            

Camp Pierpont

January the 16

[1862]

 

Dear Sister it is with pleasure that i seat mi self this afternoon to write you a few lines to let you no that i am well at presant and hoping these few lines may find you all enjoying the same blesing i spose you halve herd that we had left camp Pierpont we had left here the day after christmas and we went up the rivver a bout fifty miles up to edwards ferry and we staid there bout two weeks and then we got orders to com back to camp Pierpont where we are know where we expect to stay here for some time but then we cant tell how long we will stay at a place it 

 

we had two days marching the road wer very muddy some places but then we are getting puty well ust to the mud a gainst this time uncle george was here the other day him and george cooper they staid here one night and a part of a day i was very glad to see them but they did not stay long a nuff to speake to them hardly but they said they had to go to baltimore to meet some more horses and he said that he would come back and see us be fore he would go home wich i hope he will for i haddent time talk to him half as much as i would like to

 

well liz i must tell you how we live here we halve got a pen of logs built up and we set our tent on the top of it the pen is eight feet squair and there is four / of us in it we halve got a stove in it and it keeps it puty warm but then the grub is as usial puty hard we hant bucherd yet and we hant got no puddings nor sasuages yet if we had i think they would go puty nice i think we will haft to bucher puty soon we mite go and kill some of the rebbles but they wouldent make good puddings i dont think they would be fit to eat the hant been much snow here this winter but there has been some puty cold weather the potomac rivver has been frozen ove twice this winter and it takes puty cold weather weather to do that

 

well i must tell you that i recieved them pictuers of yours and mahala and i was very glad to get them and i think they was very good ones but i think youns wer sitting up withe the boys the / night be fore for you haddent yours eyes open very wide but then i wont say enything a bout for i halve set up with the gals before know and i believe i would again if i was back there there is four of us boys in one tent and we sent back to henry Rhodes to get us up a box of provision and if he doze that i wish you would send me a good wollen shirt and a check one if i i halve enny you often wanted me to let you know weather i wanted eny socks i halve got plenty of them i kin get plenty of shirts but then they aint worth enything when i do get them and then you haft to pay two prices for them and i dont like to do that if henry sends that box send me lots of good things to eat Send me rite smart of butter for all we get here we haft to by and it is only 25 and 30 and that is puty steep aint it

 

that is all i halve to tell you for this time you must excuse mi bad writing and all mestakes nothing more at presant but still remain your Brother George

                                                                                                                                   

E Ben

 

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if you get enny letters from eaphraim send it to me for i dont no where to write to him

 

tell him i am well

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