October the 30^th 1862

 

Dear Wife it is with the gratest of pleasure that I take the oportunity to right you a fiew lines to let you no how we got here we started from Wayn on tuesday morning and when the conducter came round our boys all stuck together and they would not pay any thing and they took us on to huntington and they onhooked our cars and left us there and we / stuck to our cars and they they came along in the evening and took us on to peru and then we had to lay there til next morning and we got to Indianapolis this morning about [paper hole] clock We dont no what they will do with us yet I will right you a good one next sunday

 

Direct your letters to Indianapolis

89 regiment

Company K

Indiana Volunteers

in care of Cap E S Metzger

SOURCES