Burlington Vermont

November the 20 /65

 

            Dear Brother

I seat my self this after noon to answer your very kind and welcom letter wich I recieved last night and was very glad to heare from you all once more for it has been a good while since you wrote to me be fore I am well and hoping that these few lines may find you all enjoying the same blesing

 

            Well Jack you will see by this letter that we halve been on the move a gain we are in a very nice place and we halve nothing to do and and plenty to eat and halve our quarters in a big brick house and there is only sixteen of us heare and we are halving a buly time and if we haft / to stay in the service on till our time is out I would like to stay heare it is wright on the line of new york and vermont wright on the bank of Lake Champlain a buly place for scoting in the winter time and I think it will soon be winter for it has been snowing all day I think it will be a good day for rabbits to morrow I can shoot one with my gun a bout three or four miles all I want to see of them is the tip of the nose and then they are my meet how are you rabbits or eny other war

 

            Well Jack I wont wright much for I halve a good meny letters to wright and I will haft to make them short there is only four of in one room and it is a big one / abe rhodes and I sleeps to gether and we halve a fiddle a piece and we do some big playing you bet we do tell Eaf not to be in a hurry a bout writing to me tell him that there is lots of time and there is no use of crowding the thing no not a bit of use in it

 

            Well I gess this is a bout all I halve to wright this time you will please excuse a short letter this time and I will try and do better the next time nothing more at presant but remain your Brother as ever

 

            My well wishes to all Shorty

 

Wright soon and tell me all the news

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Co G 2^nd regt U.S. Vet Vol

1^st A.C.            Burlington Vermont

                                                                                                           

Jackson Bender

                       

Wright Soon Soon

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