sept the 1^st 1861

            Jacksonriver    Aligany County va

                        Dr B. F. Hodnett

 

Dear Brother I now seat my self to inform you that I have received yours and read it with the greatest of pleasure I never was as anxious to hear from home in my life as I was and to hear that you all ware all well generally I have been verry well since I rote last untill last night the recroots came in and brought me some butter I et of it verry hearty it was too heavy on my stomache it caused me to vomit my stomache has been quite weak since well to change the subject I will tell you of our trip from richmond here we war 3 days coming a bout 50 or 60 miles we expect to leave here to morrowe to go to general floyd about 85 miles west of here we will have to walk as we have rode to the end of the road well Benny if you will look at the map you can get a better/description of it than I can give you we are a mong the aligany mountains they are plenty of dear here crops are generally good through this country I see some fine hoggs and cows and horses well Benny Mary rote something about your comeing to us I would bee verry glad to see you but I can tell you this is a hard life well I believe that I am abot through Benny perhaps you all are mistaken a bout us I under stand it is reported there that we have had a fight and several of our regiment was killed it is a mistake we are not in 50 miles of the federal army but we are going under floyds command and I expect that we will bee in a fight by the last of next week I will now close nothing more at present I remain your living Brother till Death

 

Direct your leter to Richmond to the 13 ga reg as I showed you in the letter I sent By curtright

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