Camp Benton Oct 2/61

Maryland

Chapter 2^d                  

           

Dear Mother

                                    I shall have to commence another sheet to con keep up with you on writing long letters. If you want to imagine what we are doing just imagine a tent about 9 foot square and in it 12 persons sleeping and cleaning guns and writing and your humble servant writing a letter and smoking an old clay pipe with grate gusto. The situation of is poor in a hollow surrounded by hills. The / topograpical situation you will see by the accompanying map. You probably heard of the battle at Munson where through the blunders of drunken officers they succeeded in capturing 2 stove pipes and 1 wooden gun and killed more of our own men than of the enemy, and the other day an Irish Regt fired into a California Regt and shot 10 men and that is the characteristic of our officers who get drunk on the eve of battle and then when they should do their best commit the greatest blunder But I have got about to my wits end and with much love to all sign myself /

 

Yours truly,

Geo H Patch

 

Address

            George H. Patch

                        Co. H. 19 Regt

                        Care of Capt Wilson

Washington D.C.

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