Camp Pierpont

feb the 1. 1862

 

Dear Brother it is with pleasure that i seat mi self right after breakfast to write you of 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 well i must tell you a a little of what we had for breakfast we had some fried beef and some fried mush but it wasent very good and we had bred and cofee that is what we had for breakfast and we are getting fat on it well Jack i must tell you a little a bout the weather it has raned here for the last month nearly every day and it snowed here last night a bout three inches and and / is raning to day and the mud is a bout eight or ten feet deep more or less but i gess it is less but then it is deep a nuff it is the muddiest time i ever seen and no hopes of it getting eny better soon for it is raning most every day there is not much sines of a fight at the presant time but i think there will be a big one a gainst spring for there is lots of rebbles handy but then i think they had better let us a lone for feare some of them get hurt for we are puty dangerous we would just as leave shoot a rebble as not well Jack i must tell you that i hant been at a spelling or singing since i left home nor i hant been at a spree since we left camp wright but while we was there i was at two or / thre good ones but here they are mity scarce and that ant the worst of it for you dont get to see a gal here not one in a month hardly that is bad aint it Jack yes i think it is but then wait till we come back i expect when we go eny place we will haft to take the dogs a long to keep the gals a way that would be bad i think dont you Jack well i must tell you that we never got our box yet the roads has been so bad that we diddent go to look for it yet but i think we will soon for we are getting hungry for what is in it i think when we get it we will halve a big spree over it well Jack i gess i halve told you all for this time you will haft to excuse mi bad writing for the / children is maken so much noise that i cant write good if they dont keep quiet soon i will smac there asses come pleatly for them and then they will keep quiet nothing more at presant but remain your efectioniate Brother      

George Bender

                                               

to Jackson Bender

 

write soon and dont for get

good by for this time

 

mi Love to you all

 

old virginna

Camp Pierpont

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