We have a Brigade here of six companies under Col Gen^l Vinton originally under Gen^l Davidson.

 

            The farmers bring bring in pies from ten to 20^c bread from 10 31^c pr loaf. chickens 25 to 30^c pr head

 

            Tell me how the people get on with the "draft". How is Jessee Richards. I do not want to sell a lend any of my office pictures or furniture for the present. I will let McCreedy have my chair for $25 cash down—but not the tool crane attached to the table I have got my House Wife with me and have some paper left. Think more of it than any thing with me. Tell Mother her kindness in this and a thousand other things are fully appreciated by her unworthy son in law. Tell Father to keep me posted up in /

 

Sabbath afternoon 4 ocl PM

Oct 12^th 1862

 

            Matters of my own and of the Town &c. Here comes Oakley with an a cracker or hard bread box & wishes he had a saw which makes me regret again that I did not bring my little saw. I there is not a saw in the Reg^t. The hard bread we get looks like in size & thickness of a common soda cracker old style—thin & flat but hard & tough O how hard but we make a good dish of them by breaking them up over night & soaking them in water & frying them in stew pan with a piece of pork—fry them to a brown.—yesterday a Dutchwoman brot us some potatoes (the first since left Albany) & onions—milk & eggs.

 

            I must close, so good by.

                       

Your Cyrus

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