Sept ^the 1 1862

Camp Watkins VA

 

            Dear Father I received your kind letter last thursday and was glad to hear from hoam & that you wer al wel and that you wer done haying I wil tel you how we have done sence we started the reason that I did not write before was we wer going to march and I thought it would be best to wait unt til I could write something that woul be worth reading thursday we recived orders to be up early so we could march dow to harrisburge and get ower arms and we did so and got back by 11 oclock the guns we got are rebel guns that wer capturd and havy ones to we struck tents and after diner & waited til fore oclock and marched down to the carres cars and we / got a board and started for dixie we went like some old giant for in evry old house you would se shirt tails and news papers waveing until dark when things went rather dul fore we could not get no sleep attal we arrived at littel york until and then refreshed my selfe with some a pie or tow while the inhabitants was waisting their wil holering & it is al the ful blooded union place we have sene sence we arrived at baltimore at 4 oclock and marched through and by the time we got to the Depot it was daylight and there was a nother regt a head of us and so we stacked ower arms and then we wer marched in to a hotel and got breakfast which was not out of the way in my estamation and then borded the cares in half an hour and started on and we went very slow on the train we wer on last so a person could / have a good chance to se the country and I cal it prety darned hard case for to get a living saw plenty of nigars but no whites but soldiers We arrived at Washington about 2 oclock and when we got in quarters for to rest we could hear the cannon as plain as could be it was gust one continual roar and old was within 14 teen miles of us baggid waggons went out in one continual stream for the wounded telagraph dispaches came in but we could not hear the news attal I went after some eye medison for my eyes were sore and when I got back the regt was gust marching and I run and catch uped with them and the boys sed that my gun would come up with the baggage so I traveld on with them when we got through washington it was dark and we could se the camp fiers of micCllen / headquarters and we looked a cross with ower a cross the potomack

 

Charley says tel you that he had sent you this money by horten and tel almond to go dow to Dockter horten and get it and pay for them clotes that he sent to the mouth of the crick he says he would have sent you word before but he was wating fore the rest but as their is no likely whods of geting no more he wil let you no about it. he sen 25 and I sent 20. I was sick and no could not get eat soldiers fare they sed that we would get ower bounty when we got to washington but when we got their ther was nothing sed a boat bout it

 

I wil stop writeing for this

 

Time From your Son Jonas Fuller

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