No 6                                                                            Baton Rouge Thursday Oct 29

 

Dear Mother &c

                        I have just got back from the judges office. I got through there a little earlier to day than common, and I am glad that it happened so, being that I had got your letter to answer that I got last night It is quite a rainy day to day. it has not been very pleasant lately, it seems a good deal like the weather we have to home. you say you are not having it very pleasant there now. I got the half dollar and postage stamps you sent in your letter all right, and I was glad you sent the postage stamps for I was all out, and had borrowed one or two. that little piece of flannel you sent I suppose is the same as you are making my shirts of though you did not write about it. it is a very nice piece, and I am expecting a fine pair of shirts. I think I shall always wear wool/en shirts when I get home they are so much better. I am glad that you concluded to send me a pair of boots, for you may not get the letter that I wrote, in which I sent for a pair, and now it will be all right if you dont get it. that butter you mentioned about sending I should like very much but I shall not expect it in the box, as there are three or four going to send in it. however it will do just as well, I will eat it when I get home. you wrote about Edwin Forrest, I never knew before but what he was  paroled when he was taken prisoner and I expected he was to home now. I did not happen to see Wallice while he was out here, but I saw several of his regiment. George Oldham had a brother in it. he was taken prisoner and paroled. he came to see George several times while he was at New Orleans. I wrote to you I would send you some photographs when I got payed of, and I will have some took/soon if Lime and Mark get good ones. they went and sat for some, day before yesterday they are to have them Monday. I saw some the same man took a few days ago and they were very poor ones, so I thought I would wait awhile before I had any took for they ask to big a price to get poor pictures they ask four dollars for half a dozzen. I shall not send home any money this time, and I dont know as I should have sent any if we had got two months more pay, situated as we are now. I wrote in my letter to Barker about one of the guard shooting a man the other night. last night another man was shot, one of the Wisconsin men came up to a man that belonged to the 3^rd Mass Cav. (that was down here from Port Hudson to fix the telegraph wire) and asked him if he belonged to the 38^th Mass. he told him no. the Wisconsin soldier said, you lie damn/you, and shot him in the arm. he fired two shots. the man that was shot belonged to the 38^th once, he got transferred to the Cavalry a short time ago, they think he will have to lose his arm, they have not arwrested the other man yet. I wish it was so that Wis. Cav. could go away from here, they are rowing it half of the time. I am going to send you a dollar I found today. as it is not good till a settlement between the United States and the so called Confedracy I send it to you for safe keeping. there is bills out here now of the same bank, but they read a little different. this is all I can think of now

                                                                                    Your soldier boy

                                                                                                Lewis Josselyn

 

[envelope: Postmark New Orleans La Nov 4 1863/51/Mr Cyrus Josselyn/West Hanover/Mass]

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