Winchester Virginna

April the 8 /65

           

Dear Brother

I seat my self this morning to let you no that I am well at presant and hoping these few lines may find you all the same it is prety darn cold heare this morning my fingers so cold that they are numb setting in the tent I always thought this was a warm country but it aint very warm at presant for I allmost froze in bed last night but I worred it through some how Ace and I sleeps to gether and you no that Ace is good and fat and helps to ceep me warm we lay wright at winchester and it is a prety large place most as big as new castle and we can get / a most enything that we want to eat we get a long very well so far but I cant tell how long we will stay heare we dont stay long at one place they think that we get big wages and they want us to earn them but I gess we can stand it I sent five hundred dollars home by express the other day and two hundred dollars of it be longs to ace Shaffer I wrote a few lines to pap but I thought mebby he would not get it and I thought that I would wright this one and send the recept so he can draw it and as soon he get it I want you to let me no and dont for get I need not tell you a bout Peters burgh and richmond being captured for I expect you halve herd it long be fore this and the most of leas army that is the report here / And I gess it is true or at least I hope so I dont think that the war will be over last longer than eight or ten years longer there are some in the regment that think that the war will be over in a month but I dont I hope they are wright and I am wrong but we cant tell much a bout it but I no one thing and that is we halve marched over the country since we left harpers ferry that ever I seen in virginna we are in what is cald the Shennandoah valley wright be tween two mountains it is a very nice country

 

when you wright a gain tell me whether you got them potograph and what you done with them and tell me wether they was eny better than them other ones was well I will close by sending my Love and well wishes to you all Geor B 

 

wright soon and tell me all the news and tell me what eaf is doing if he is boating tell me ho is on with him see I dont no how in the devil to tell you to direct hardly but

                                                           

Direct Co. G. 2^nd reg^t

US Vet Vols    Hancock Corps           via

Washington D.C.

                                                           

Wright soon if not sooner

G B

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