In Camp Near Falmouth Va Mar 22, 63

 

Sarah

            I recieved a letter from you last evening and to day is Sunday and I hasten to answer it it beaing one week from the date of yours but I wrote you a letter last sunday so you have heard from me this week as well as my hearing from you but I should not have been able to have answered your letter untill next Tuesday if I had not met with a little axident our Reg. started for a four days picket duty Friday morning and I started with them and it was a verry cold morning and snowing like the mischuft and when we got about five miles out we had to cross a streem on loggs and when I was crossing I made a miss stepp and in I went and it / gave me a real ducken so the Doct told me to return to my quarters so insted of beaing on picket in a snow storm half frozen I am in my log house with a good fire in the mud fire plase and are quite cumferetable for thire is a plenty of wood and myself and the drummer is all that ocupy the hut the other four beaing out on duty I have not much nuse to wright to you but last Tuesday some of our fourses incounted the enemy at Kellys fourd the plase that we crowsed last faull and gave them a good whipping the ingagement lasted some five ours and we captured some four hundred prisenors and I gess thay had a puty lively time of it for we could / hear the roar of cannon all day and we all are under marching orders all of the time so we do not know no the moment any of us may be cauled into action but Sarah I dread the sceans of the battle field it is to horiable to wright about so I will omit the subgect at presant I am real glad for Addeline that hir chrildren have got old enuf to wirk and I hope that thay will be a great help to hir You wrote some time ago that you was sourng straw but I have not herd a word about it scence so I gess you got side ake enuf before you come to the forty Dollars I was glad to recieve the fue lines from Mother and was glad to hear that she was so well this winter I hope this will find you all well and give my love to all

                                                                       

Yours              Joseph /

 

To Fanny A Nichols

from hir Father

                        So my little Fanny wants to hear from hir Father So you have been a little sick girl and Father was so glad to hear that his little darling was getting better and your Father wants you to send yours and Henrys minchures out so Father can see his little chrildren Fanny you must be a good girl and love Mother and little brother Henry and ciss him once for your Father and always play purty with him and say your little prays before you go to sleep and Father will come home one of these days and then Father and Mother and Fanny and Henry will have a good time so be a good girl and mind Mother so good by little Fanny

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