Jan. 30. 1863.

 

Dear Freand

 

It is a long time since i heard from you but you nead not think that i had forgotten you i have ollraidy told you that i couldend get any chance to write ve are still in virginia but our minds and thought are back in Cattaraugus and once in a while in Jarmany to that country so dear to me i never could forget I can remember it as long as i will Virginia ef i ever should get out of it life

 

I receaved your letter last night and was glad to hear that / you and your folks been well since i heard from you last ve are in our old camp yet where ve was 6 week ago ve hat allwais good weather untill Burnside maded a second advance to cross the Rappahanock it was a week ago last Monday when ve hat orders to march a tuesday morning ve starded and marcht all day and untill 10 Glock that night it began to rain when ve got there and rained dredful all night long ve where about a mile from the river the rain that day and all night maded the road so bad and made that it was onpossable for the artillary to advance this artillary have advanced the day befor coultend go back and foreward either the hatto hitcghed hitched / 14 and 16 horses on one gun and then the couldent drawed over 2 rods befor the hat to stop agan on thursday morning ve receaved orders to go back to our old camp on the road back to our camp ve meet Burnsid he looked ashamed and as dirty as any other men I heard he has resigned I think I would have done the same ef i wouldend know any mor about Major Genaralship as he dost I heard he went to N.Y. where he will find Meglellan and good many more such goodfor nothing deadb may be i have no right to call him such he has done well while he was Comander of a Brigad or Divison but he / has handlet this grant army of The Potomac prety bad Major General Hooker is Comander of this Army now he is a gay old fellow and a teror in the battlefeld Il hope he will succed better as the i mentioned befor. Jerome is well and is writing to you to day the boys from East Otto are all well i did see lon goodrich yesterday he said that he wouldend write any more home he said that he would show himself prity soon in Otto one thing yet I dont know what acquaintence you mean hoor will mary soon but let her mary I for my part dont care (i wish her good luck i thought it over and over how hure it might be and dreamd tvice abouted but i cant mak out how hure she might be. I have to stop writing now you explained better negst time George Daniel Klumpp

 

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I put 30 cent in that letter please send me 3 cent stamp i cant get none hear

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