sunday July 28^th 1861

 

                                                                                                            Dear friend it is with great plesure that I write to you for to let you no how that I am well I get along well enough so you see how that is dont know how are the folks out in your part of the world are they all well or are they all dead if you had bin out here last sunday you would of thought that they had got lots of blue pills for them Damed blue things that they have down here I dont like them for they are so careless with them for they dont take no care or look out what they are about so you had not better come down here for they dont stop for those old vermonters and we don’t care for them for we are/ you see how it is don’t you say did you go down to the strawbery be and lay down on your belly and eat untill you split hy remember how we did it and then remember the short cakes we ust to have will you say well mr if you please to do so pick me some and have the old woman to make me some short cake and send it to me will you do it you had better hy if you will do it and if you wont or not you will write to me and let me no how you are so hy tell ida that hoxxey thinks of her and the time that we went to Bowesville on the hand sled and there is old betsy baker she is well is she not she ust to be full of the old harry as she could be so I suppose that she is smart/ thick hided as an old hoss dont you see how it is hy if you dont just come down here and I will explain it to you so that you will that so now dont think of eny thing else but write strait back to me do you hear hy o say william mandigo is on gard to day dont that beat thunder hy now I have bin writing all day but I think it is a shame dont you hy if so think of it and when you do so just say hy now how are all of the folks and how is the woman that thas to take raw beef to bad with her and dont get enough with out laying chonks on her eyes hy dont you think so hy see how I am situated think of it and then see how it is/ O I guess there is the old man what is his name do you no hy if it is old harvey how dow you do my son are you well or not say how are you hey and there is aunt betsy winkler she is one of the wimin don’t you think say how do you do and how happy I should be if I were at home I tell you what it is if you want to see me just look and see if you do and if you do then answer this will you say if you don’t you will catch it that [paper fold] there is mandigo he is full of the Divil don’t say one word about it so excuse me now please to Direct your letters to washington D.C. to second rigimint U V M so good by from H. C Rogers

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