New Carthrage, Lousianna

Camp on James Plantation

Quartered in Negro Quarters.

April 13^th/63

 

        I take the presant moment to enform you that I am well and hope this will reach and find you the same. I thought I would write you a few lines to day as I had nothing else to do and as it is raining now I can not be out much to day. I have wrote you severl letters and received no answers yet I should like to here from you mighty well. I am some 1200 miles from you and I could not be pleased much better than to hear from you and now you are / getting along. I may get a a letter from you before this reaches you. But I want you to answer this for you are the one's I'll like to here from shure I have seen a great many things since I left home. I may see a great many more things to before I get home. well I landed at Milligans Bend and the Reg^t had moved to a place called Richmond in Lousinna. I followed on and when I got thare they had moved on to a place called New Carthage and then went on a piece and are now on James Plantation where we are camped. I dont know how soon we will move from here we will have to fight some before we go much futher The Rebes were in force on this plantation when we came on to them we drove them / back killed one of them and how many was wounded I cant tell we had 2 houitzers in position. They (Rebes) tried to shell us back from this place but could not do it. we was to spunkey for them. A shell struck one of our guns was disabled when we took New Carthrage we took $2,000 worth of tobaco and a quantity of shugar. well we are in a very ticklish place down here we only have pace enough between the river and bayou to march fowerd on or to retreat back on. we hope to be successful in meeting with the fleet below Vicksburg we are 35 miles below Vicksburg and if so we will cut off the Rebes supples I think. well I hardley know what else to write but the man's a / plantation we are on to. He is a Rebbel and has 4 sons in the Rebbel army They are in sight of our Picketts and when we fight and they fight us where we are They have to fire at their own hous which is a fine one. He has a fine cotten ginn on his place & runs the ginn grist-mill and saw mill all runs by one engine. It is an extensive billding I have seen several of such things since I have been in this state

well my space is nearly all gone and I will have to stop by asking you to write to me as soon as you can.

 

Direct your letters to Memphis Tenn to follow Regt 69^th Ind Vols Co (K) no more this time write soon

W^m H. Corbin

 

2 E. A. Corbin & Family

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