July the 12/61

Camp Wright                                                 

                                                                                   

Dear Cousin

I take the pleasure to write you a few lines to let you now how we are getting along we are all well and harty and I hope that these few lines will find you the same we have had plenty of rain for the last week I like camp life weary well and I am getting fat as a pet pig we hadent wery plenty to eat for a wile but we have plenty now we have beef pork beans rice potatoes bread and coffee and hard crackers Our Captain is out getting more men he is in lawrence County and he wrote that we would leave here in a / week or ten days and go to Harrisburgh and go in to the Artillry business

 

I heard there was a big time in Newcastle on the fourth But there is big time here every day there is about five thousand soldiers here I read a letter that you wrote this morning and I was glad to hear from you I intended to come home next week but I guess I cant get away tell Jef to write me a letter I only heard once from him since I left home No more at present                                                                                  

 

Yours truly

A Rhodes

 

Dont forget to write

                        Jack

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