Camp P near Alexandria

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aprile the 8 /62

 

Dear brother it is with pleasure that i seat mi self this evening to write you a few lines to let you no that I am in the best of health and hoping these few lines may find you all enjoying the same blesing well know I must tell you of our travels since I last wrote home well we left camp pierpont and I cant tell you all where we were all but then we had a mity hard time we was a bout three or four weeks with out tents and raning most every other day and mud nea deep and to day it is / raning all day and all night and this is a bout six o clock and no hopes of it quiting very soon and we halve orders to march to morrow morning but where we stop I cant tell you but I expect it will be at richmond but i must tell you that we will halve a mity hard march of it if we get of of the pike there is a good deal of turn pike road here but some times we haft to get off of them and the by roads are mity bad here especially when it is wet well we had a puty darn hard time of it eny how but then old bender has as good health as ever he had and I am very glad to / say so for this is a very poor place to get sick and i am very glad to say that I halve had very good health ever since i started i hant been sick eny since i started only when I had the measels and they diddent a mount to eny thing and i am very glad to say so but we halve had hard ships a nuff to make a dog sick but then we got a long puty well but then you folks back there you may halve some idie how soldiers gets a long but I must tell you that you dont no eny thing a bout it at tall and i hope you never will for there is no fun in it I tell you well I must tell you that I recieved recieved a letter forom eap / the other day and he said he was very well they are in the same place that they was when they he last wrote to you tell pap that John ferguson send his best respects to him and he says he would like to heare him say wo pete well know I must ask you how the flying Clowd is getting a long you must take good care of her and the fiddle and the dog and keep them on till I come back well i will haft to close as it is getting late and i hant much room to write eny more so I will bid you all good by write soon and direct as be fore only put gen mcCall division mi respects to you all

 

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