Camp Near Pools ville

Meralland the 16, 1862

           

Dear Perants I now take my pen to write a few lines to inform you that I am still in the land of living I am wel and able to eat my allowance yet I recived you letter of the 5. last friday we recived maching orders the same night and marched at 4 oclock the next morning march up the potomack to george town and crossed and marched from george town to rockville fair ground and staid all night and started from their at 3 oclock and marched to poolville which is 40 miles miles so you can judge that we wer quite tired for we had ower knapsacks to carry the reason why we wer hared so the rebble Calvery wer crossing the river / when we got to Poolsville we could hear the cannon we halted and staid long enough to get supper and then we went down to river and staid their til 1 oclock at night in the rain when we wer relived by the cavelry we then marched back to ower camp whare the tiared Boys wer left to pitch the tents we staid there the next day and night and marched at 4 oclock down to the river lick to smash staid their till about noon then went up on the to path 5 miles and ower regtment pickited up the river and the rest of the Brigade went back we then staid on the bank of the river til noon then we marched back down the river and crossed back the canal and went up on the hill and watched the forde all night was not allowed to build enny fire and it / was quite colde I tell you. we have to march soon I cant tel whare one of ower regtments crossed the river and the Calver of the Brigade and they scaterd in every direction and maby we shall cross to we heard considerable fireing this morning. The Boys are all wel except Wm Blocher which had a fever and was left & J H Hurst which was sick the same he was a fiew years before and the captain ordely. March is the cry and I shall have to close I dont belive you can read this for I have to write with the sun in my eyes and set on the ground do as you think best about bying Sam overpecks colt I have hurd nothing about ower pay yet

 

write soon as you get this

           

From you Son Jonas Fuller

to Ransome & Mother

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