No 10

                                                                                                            Baton Rouge Dec 1^st

 

Dear Mother

                        Having got through my duties for the day I will now spend what there is left of the evening in writing to you, for it is now most a week since I wrote to you, and I know you expect to hear from me as often as that. Well to begen with we are as well as usual. and I am glad to see by your letter that I got today No. 21 that you also are all well, or getting well. I was sorry to hear that little Edith had been so sick. Delane writes me that she says Loo must come home I suppose she has got to be quite a large girl what she was when I left home, and a much larger one when I get home. I wrote you we were all well. I do not mean/to say we are all perfectly so, for I do not always think to mention about Lark he remaining about the same as usual Eli to has not been very well lately. he has been under the doctors care, and has not been on duty. he has got the diarrhoea pretty bad, but I think he will soon be better, for he is dieting for it. I have not any news to write at all, more than that I was lucky enough to get a letter from Barker and one from Sander as well as yours today, and that Thanksgiving passed off all right with us. yesterday we lost to more members of our Company. they were discharged, and left for home by the way of New Orleans. one of them is Turner Stetson and the other is a Jinks of North Bridgewater. Turner looks full as well I think, as he did when we left him in Baltimore but that is not tough looking at all. he has not done a weeks duty in the regt./since he was enlisted. those papers you sent I almost forgot to tell you I received with the lozzenges all in. I was glad you sent the papers, and I have had a pleasant day reading them with my letters today we boys that are with judge do not have much of a chance to write during the day but we have a good chance to read. I sent the rest of my pictures in my last letter they are very poor ones, but you must let those answer for a while, and not think I look so downhearted as I do in them, for it is not so. Bill Phillips as you say does not look as he did when he left home and I dont wonder at all that you did not know him by his picture. I have not seen him now for more than a fortnight if I do not happen to write to Barker or Sander tomorrow tell them I will write in a few days. and to you also in less than a week.

                                                                                                Yours most true

                                                                                                Lewis Josselyn

 

[envelope: Postmark New Orleans La Dec 4 1863/53^rd/Mr. Cyrus Josselyn/West Hanover/Mass.]

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