April 7^th Lawrence

                                                                                                                        Kansas

 

Dear Brother

            I received your letter last night and was glad to hear that you were all well as this leaves me we left Fort Scott the 26 of March and marched for this place it is on hundred miles from here to Fort Scott we marched it in five days and a half we did not carry our napsacks a rod we left camp in the morning at eight O clock generaly in good order but before night you could not find ten men together the Regt was some times six miles long some a head and some behind the last two nights we had no tents/ the teams could not keep up with the Regt. we slept on the ground it was pretty cold the last day we went ten miles and it rained all the way       Mrs Bigmy is dead she died last Wednesday morning at eight O clock after a brief illness of four days this cast a gloom over this Reg^t. she was truly a noble woman. the next journey we take I think we will cross the plains to Santafee it is nine hundred miles from here there is four Regts here the weather is warm Lawrence is a nice place it is not quite so large as Janesville it is on the Kansas river we are camped up the river about a mile from the citty we expect our pay this week we drill four hours a day. I will send you some papers as soon as I can go to town to get them we get the mail every night/

 

            I wrote two letters home the day before we left Fort Scott

 

it takes a letter five days to come through we get loaf bread now we get 22 ounces a day. the Honorable George Frary is going to get his discharge such men as him are a nusance to the army they enlist because they know that they can get their discharge when they have a mind to he has not drilled an hour since we left Levenworth and he is as cross as an old seting hen. we call him the Old hun. I have grown some since I left Wis my weight is 1,96 pounds the boys are well at presant there is not one of our men in the hospital give my respects to all the folks I remain your affectionate

                                                Brother Robert Taylor/

 

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Lawrence Kansas

13^th Reg^t W. V.

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