Peters burgh

May 4^th 1865

 

Dear Mother

As I have got back to day I will pen a few lines in answer to one I received to day we have been off on a nother march we have been gone ten days we started to go down to help Sherman but he surrenderd before we got thare and I was offel glad of it we went in to North Carolina but not very far into the state I went as far as I wanted to go the black flys like to eat me up 

 

Mother I got in to a hard place the night before we turned to come back I started to go after corn for my horse to a house and we had to go about 5 miles I got the corn and started to come back and they come up a thunder storm and it raind the hardest I ever saw and I got away from the rest of the boys and got lost It was in the pine woods and in a swamp I staid thare most all night for I got so turned around that I did not know which way the camp was / I might of went to a house and ust them but I guess that would not been very healthy for me for they would cut a mans throat in a minute if he was a lone

 

Mother I was glad we came back for it is to hot down thare I saw feels of wheat breast high and corn big enough to hoe Mother I cant write much to day for I have got a good deal to do I expect we are a going to moove in a day or two we are a going north to washington I should not wonder if we got our discharge the first of June /

 

Mother you need not worry about me for I am well and tough and feeling like a colt Mother I am sorry you are sick you must be carefull I must close good by this time write Soon

                                   

From your Son

Ira

 

give this to mother for I hant got no envelope directed to her I got some from her and put them in to my pocket and they got wet and spoilt

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