Post Hospitle Near Elexandry

                                    Nov the 18^th/62

 

                                                            Dear Mother

as I have got to a Stoping place I will write you a few lines I am a bout the Same my back is litle lame. I thought I was a going to the regt but I cant go till they call for us they will not let us go. you cant guess what I found last night after I got here. I came a crost a cosen of mine one of uncle Johns boys Andrew. S. Emston after we got our tent put up he was ther and came in and He Said he came from Sedgwick I inquired about it and/found out that we was couins he belongs to the 4 maine I never new that there was such a boy in the world till last night he has ben here Six months or in the hospitle S[?] monthes he has ben here 2 he hart his back and is not fit for Servis it hurts him to cary a cartridge box or napsack he will Soon get his discharge They disCharge about a hundred a weak here. this is a very large camp the ground is coverd acres of it with camps of the Sick none that is very sick. There is no news here to write olny what I have rote that is a considerable I dont Supose I shall ever see that box you sent me I now/I shant it is to bad how much did it cost to Send it if it did not Cost to much you may get up a Small one and Send it here put in a litle buter and a few cakes if a Can of honey and get a Small pastbord Shoe box and tie it up well with twine or Something put in an aple or two; I Suppose the boys to the regt will get the box; that you Sent before; there is two of us here a felow from Walden

 

                                                            This will do for to day. Write as soon as get this without fail if you send a box Send it without delay

 

                                                            Good day till I write

                                                                        a gan   From Your

                                                            Son      A. E. Titus

 

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