Camp Near Brandy Station Va

December the 9 /63

 

Dear brother

it is with pleasure that I seat my self this evning to answer your kind letter wich I recieved some time a go but had no time to answer it sooner for we halve been doing some big marching and some fighting and when we are doing all that we hant got much time to write we halve been in this camp four or five days and the most of us halve winters quarters built we had ours a bout done yesterday evning this is the first letter that has been wrote in our knew house it seems a little like living since we got in our knew house / but when we had to lay out in the cold we came darn near friezing for it gets most darn cold down heare after night it gets cold a nuff to frieze ice an inch thick and that is prety cold weather to lay out wich we halve done a meny a time but I hope we wont haft to do it a gain we halve got good huses bilt know if we dont haft to move I think we can get a long prety well there is four of us in our house there is Acle Shaffer and george Pitzer and abe Rhodes and my self all from hickery crick we got some soft bread to day and we think we are living prety well when we get soft bread and nothing to put on it how are you dry bred buly 

 

            well I hardly no what to write when you write to me a gain I want you to let me no wether pap got that money yet if he did I want you to let me no and tell me wether father ever got that letter that I wrote to him a bout that money and if he did let me no well a little a bout the boots tell me in your next letter wether they are done and tell me what kind of boots they are but we dont want them sent yet with out some boddy is coming to the Company for there is no shure way of sending them yet but if we stay in winters quarters there will soon be a express line opend to the army of the Potomack 

 

well I gess I will bring these few lines to a close you will please excuse this bad writing for I am writing this in a hury the health in the Company is very good at the presant time and I hope these few lines may find you all as they leave me well and hearty nothing more at presant but remain your Brother George Bender

                                                           

To Jackson Bender

 

tell them young boys

to look out for the draft

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