Camp Pierpont           

Feb the 16 /62

 

Dear Brother it is with pleasure that i seat mi self this evning to let you no that I am well at presant and hoping these few lines may find you enjoying the same blesing i recived your letter yesterday evning and was very glad to here from you and was glad to here of you all being well there has nothing new going on here since i last wrote to you so i dont no hardly what to write to you it was snoing here most all day there is more snow on the ground know than there was eny time this winter i believe and it is only a bout three or four inches on / the ground every thing is quiet here at the presant but then i think there will be some hard fightting to do be fore long i think there will be a big move on the potomac a bout the time the nice weather comes in in the spring there will be some big times it will be like the times on the forth of July but it will be a good deal harder well know i must tell you that i got a letter from eaphraim last night and he was well and getting a long very well so he said and he said he was had a better time than we had but i dont no weather he has or not but mebby he has i dont no weather he has or not /

 

we got that box at last and was very glad to get it but we halve got most every thing eat we halve got plenty of butter and hickery nuts but the rest of the things are most all gone them hickery nuts and chesnuts eat first strate well Jack i gess i halve told you all i halve to tell you for this time you will haft to excuse mi bad writing and all me stakes nothing more at presant but remain your old Brother

                                                                                               

George Bender

                                                                                               

Jackson Bender

 

Write soon and tell me the news Mi respects to you all

                                               

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