Camp Perry

Daufuskie Isl

3^d May/4^th/62

           

Dear Sister

                        Thy letter of 26^th inst reached me last first day. I have not had an oppertunity to answer it till this forenoon and I dont know as I need write now as things are prety much in the same condition that they were when I last wrote to Asa some two weeks ago except that there is rather more sickness now than then. We have two cases our camp that I have my doubts about some half dozen others are sick enough to be excused from duty apparently all from the effect of the climate. I had a chill myself night / before last I took a prety strong dose of composition. aside from that my health is and has been good so with the rest of the Harrisonville boys except Chas McMannus he was prety sick I believe when I last wrote. he has got about since then and is now nearly well.

           

The prospect a month ago of a triumphal advance on Savannah gains nothing by time we are not there yet, and not likely to go very soon if at all. nearly an half the troops that were here have left part to Tybee and part to Hilton Head there is probably not over fifteen hundred here at present

 

Night before last two men one in uniform and the other in / citizens dress came down from Savannah and gave themselves up to one of our gun boats they are both Northerners pressed into the rebel service and are to be forewarded to their homes per next steam ship nothing is known by us of what information they gave, except that they report thirty thousand troops around the city mostly boys & old men miserably equiped and clothed it is the general opinion here that by the time they get all the forces concentrated there that they possibly can, they will find they have commited the same error that they did at Manasess

 

Several contrabands have arrived here from the interior with thur limbs teribly torn & lasserated by the sharp teath of thur muskers blood hounds I understand / that one or two of them have been forewarded to [faded] thee will probably have heard of them ere this.

 

[paper fold] close hopeing to hear from thee soon I remain Thy Brother

Adam

 

PS None of us have yet heard from our money some of the boys are begining to think it is pretty near time must take the next march with [faded] tidings of it. [faded]

                                                                                                           

Respectfully,

Adam

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