Camp Near Poolsville             1862

Maryaland Oct the 22

 

Dear Perants

I recived your moste welcom letter of the 12 and was glad to hear from home and that you wer all wel and getting long wel. as for Jord he is quite wel at presant I have just come of patroal guard and washed my selfe. it is quite colde and windy how is it arround the old plantation I tell you I thin of home colde nights when we are trying to sleep in ower little 7 by 9 tents I must tel you that Charley and I shiped Jhon Washburn for Jhon Allen and now I think I have the best kind of tent mates. ower regt did not cross the river as some thought it would but staid whare we wer un til the next day then marched back twords poolsville we arrived in ower preasent camp last sunday and I for one have got recruted up a / good deal. we dril the same we did at prescot Smith. in ower march from prescot Smith to poolsville was a force march of 20 miles a day mebby you think just as I did that it could be done like a nice but I tel you when you come to get 60 weight on your shoulders and by the time you get 20 miles you wil be tiard enough to lay down and rest and besides we had two days rations to carry. we did not have enny thing to eat for two days and then was the time I thought of the old log house when we wer at the rivver Henry camp and Cyes bil came and to see us they look quite natural and bil is a little more so. wel as you and mother spoke about us boys stick to gather wel we do as far as possible. I tel you the way is every one fore himselfe and the devel for the whole Joseph Hurst was left quite sick at prescot Smith wiliam blocker and marvin Ealley and the captain and [?] al that was left of Co A was 17 at prescot / Smith Eathel has got quite a bad tooth ake charley is wel and the same old sixpence. wel the rebbles crossed the river and mad a breack in the canaul you know wat is going on than I do so I wil tel what kind of a country meryland is as far as I have ben I cawl it a perfict pairadice if they had Northen labour here it would be perfict to my notion Mother sed that maby we might be welcom us back in thre months I am afrade 3 times 3 wil bring us no nigher home than we are now. they say that the rebbles are starveing condition I think they wil thrash before they wil starve and they have stacks of grain and hay all over the hills and 3 weaks ago they helde poolsville and I have pulled out handfuls of wheat whare thare wer 500 hundred and if they had ben as hungrey as the 141 regt was it would have ben an easy matter for them to carred it a cross / the river you spoke about Sam overpeck colt if you think it best buy him if you have got fodder enough when I get pay I shall send it home I want a pair boots but you need not be in a hurry a bout getting them you need not send enny money for I can get along without enny I have got al the stamps and was verry glad of them for they come right in the nick of time the Chaplain has gon after the pay roll and I guess the next order wil be march I got 4 dollars of the sutler is all the money I have spent sence I left Harrisburge when you write pleas tel me what Co George Smith is in it is moste night and I shall have to close from

                                               

your affectionate Boy

Jonas Fuller

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