Near ceader creek Via

Oct 25^th 1864

                                                                                   

Dear Father & Mother

As I can cetch a little time I will write a few lines in answer to one I received from you a week ago but I have not had time to answer it we have just got our tents put up It has been all in a rush ever since the last battle wich was a hard one but I was not in it I should of been in it if we had not went to guard that train and had not got quite back but I tell you it was a hard one we got here the next day after the battle / and a hard sight I tell you I saw men dead lying on the ground they had not had time to bury them but I guess they were rebs But that is nothing what they have in war

 

Mother wallace is well and all of the Jay boys I and wallace done our washing together yesterday he is the same old sixpence his tent is about four rods from mine he tents with olvin and I tent with Edy Jorden I will tell you what we had for breakfast this morning we had pancakes and honey and potatoes and meat & hard tacks so you see we dont starve we just go right in to / a house and take any thing we want. John Coolidge & I went the other day about 5 miles to a house and I tell you things had to sufer we took right hold of a swarm of bees and fetch them of I tell you John Coolidge will make a good soldier he is not afraid of any thing and them are the right kind here

 

Mother I voted yesterday for uncle Abe what do you think of that Pirpoint Jones is here now takeing the votes I sent mine to Father inclosed in two invelops he can open the out side one and give the other to the / Inspector of election

 

Mother I am very contented down here I have not been sick a particle yet and as long as I am well I shant complain I have not had a letter from home in a week and I should like to hear from some one I have received a number from home but the last one I got was from you I gues Lucy has stopt writing for I have not had one from her in a good while I want you to write as often as you can                                                                     

Ira A Torrance

 

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Direct to

Ira A Torrance

Company E

Second New York Harris Light Cavalry

Washington DC

 

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to Wallace except Co E

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